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feemed to me to belong to the family of the 

 conifeYiCy to judge from the difpolitioii of its 

 flamina, and the refinous odour of ;il! it.s parts ; 

 but I never was able to procure anv of its fruit, 

 although I afterwards met with niany orher trees 

 of the fame fpecies: doubt lefs the feafon was 

 not yet fufiiciently advanced; the ftamma which 

 I remarked on them appeared to have been the 

 produftion of the preceding year. I m.ention 

 this tree, not only on account of the fingularity 

 of its leaves in a tree of this family, for they 

 are broad, and deeply divided on their mar- 

 gin, but alfo on account of their utility in the 

 making of beer: their bitter, and at the fame 

 time aromatic extrad, led me to think that it 

 might be ufed like that of fpruce. The expe- 

 riment which I made of it with malt, informed 

 me that I was not miflaken. 



This fme tree is frequently a meter in thick- 

 nefs, and from twenty-five to thirty meters in 

 height: its wood is extremely hard, of a reddifli 

 colour, and fufceptible of a moft beautiful 

 polifn. 



The thick forefls that lay to the north- 

 north-Vrcft: of our fliips, offered to my view a 

 great niimlxr of trees, of middling height, 

 which grcw\ery well, notwithflanaing theflvade 

 fpread over them by the enormous branches of 

 the eucalyptus gljbnlu^. 



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