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please, as well as the roasted nuts, have 

 been recovered. These trees are of quick 

 growth : Barhatn says he has planted the 

 nuts, and the young trees have produced 

 fruit in two years after. They will continue 

 bearing fruit for more than a hundred years. 

 Many are now flourishing in Jamaica that 

 were planted when the Spaniards had it in 

 possession. 



I have lately received from Jamaica a 

 cashew apple, bearing two distinct nuts, 

 which was considered so rare a circumstance 

 that it was preserved in spirits. It's appear- 

 ance is unnatural, resembling a lemon pippin 

 apple, with two lambs' kidneys stuck on 

 the end. 



The wood of the cashew is excellent, 

 strong, and lasting timber. 



These trees annually transude in large 

 quantities, viz. often to ten or twelve pounds' 

 weight of fine, semi-transparent gum, similar 

 to gum-arabic, and not at all inferior to it 

 in virtue and quality, except that it contains 

 a light astringency, which perhaps renders 

 it the more valuable in many respects : 

 for this reason it is often used as a suc- 

 cedaneum in the Jamaica shops. 



The thick oil of the nut or shell tinges 

 linen of a rusty iron colour, which can be 



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