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neither richly nutritious nor ap aee agreeable to the palate, 
would be pardonable only in a desert which was destined to 
remain uninhabited for ages. Wi he milar prodigality of the 
works of Nature, the first settlers of Kentuc y killed the Buffalo, 
an animal weighing 12 or 15 hundred pounds, for the pleasure 
of eating its bia and abandoned the carcass to the beasts 
of the ae 
ms Ca are Tree bears long clusters of small greenish 
ace which are succeeded by a black, inesculent fruit, about 
a size of a 
“Tn Sout ther Sted the wood of ae tree, cc extremely 
porous, is preferred to every other wharv Ss superiority 
consists in oe secure from injury by sea-worms, which, during 
its numbers, and proba e 
will cease to exist within the teiedas ries ie rae States.” 
course, in addition to both the easily accessible and buried 
printed literature about this palm, there is, doubtless, much 
contained in unpublished ee ndence 
The following paragraphs from a ictte? of Dr. G. W. Hulse? 
ublish : 
Arkansas during the summer and fall of _ same year, returning to Fort 
Brooke, Florida. In 1837, f , Arkansas, returning 
to Fort Brooke in January, 1838. He was at Ta llahas ssee in March, and 
t! 
done in Florida and Mississippi. Throughout the Civil War he was a surgeon 
in th fed A and at its close, hi t dnorth 
his home at first with his sister, Mrs. Moffatt at Rockford, Illinois, 
and later with her daughter, ne Se at Auburn, New York, where he 
* John Torrey was born in fee k City, 15 August, 1796. As a boy he 
became interested in botany and pee When he was only twenty 
years old, and a student of medicine, he was one of, ihe group of young men 
