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Fifthly^ The Fount aim ^ or Dropping-Trees, m 

 the I lies of Ferro, St. Thomas^ and in Guiney^ 

 which ferve the Inhabitants inftead of Rain, and 

 frefli Springs : ' My honoured Friend, Dr. T^an- 

 cred Robinjon^ in a late Letter to me, is not of 

 VoJJiiis's Opinion, that thefe Trees are of the 

 Farulaceous YawA, becaufe he obferves, that by 

 ^ the Defcriptions of Eye-witneiTes, and by the 

 dry'd Sample fent by Paludafius to the Duke of 

 Wirtenberg, the Leaves are quite different from 

 thofe of the Ferula ^^ coming nearer to the Sefeli 

 Fthiopicum Salicis vel Periclymeni folio : There- 

 fore the DoBor rather thinks them to be of the 

 haurel-YxwA^ though he concludes here may be 

 many different Sorts of thefe running Aqueous- 

 Trees ; becaufe that Pba?2ome?2on does not de- 

 pend upon, or proceed from any Peculiarity of 

 the Plant, but rather from the Place and Situa- 

 tion ; of which he writes more at large, in a 

 Letter printed in another Difcourfe of mine. 



'Sixthly^ and Lajily, We will only mention 

 the Names of fome other Vegetables, which,, 

 with Eighteen or Twenty Thoufand more of 

 that Kind , do manifeft to Mankind the illu- 

 ftrious Bounty and Providence of the Almighty 

 and • Omnifcient Creator, towards his unde- 

 ferving Creatures 5 as the Cotton-Tree's y the 

 J^anyoc^ or Cajfava -, the Potatoes the Jefuit'S' 

 Bark Tree j the Poppy ; the Rhubarb ^ the Scam- 



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