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The Emperors of Mogul highly esteemed 

 the cocoa-nut for making goblets, which 

 they have set with precious stones and 

 edged with gold, believing that poison would 

 lose its baneful qualities in these vases. 



The cocoa-nuts have three holes closely 

 stopped ; one of these being both wider, and 

 more easily penetrated than the rest: from 

 this, when the nut is planted, rises the ger- 

 men, or young tree, first having ramified, 

 and filled the whole cavity of the nut ; and 

 then shoots out at the before-mentioned 

 hole in the top, and soon appears above 

 ground in two narrow leaves : through these 

 holes likewise is the water copiously dis- 

 tilled into the nut from the roots : thus 

 has nature wonderfully made an egress for 

 the future tree. 



M. Le Goux de Flaix, an officer of en- 

 gineers, and a member of the Asiatic Society 

 of Calcutta, in his account of the cocoa-nut- 

 tree, says it is a well-known fact, that the 

 fibrous covering of the cocoa-nut is con- 

 verted into good ropes, which are useful in 

 navigation and for various purposes on shore. 

 Cables for anchors made of this substance 

 are much better than those made of hemp. 

 They are exceedingly elastic, stretch without 

 straining the vessel, and scarcely ever break, 



