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of the INand of Barbadoes. 
tranfport any from the highlands, by reafon of the unpaflableneS of 
the wayessthe body of this tree I have {zen about 45 or 50 foot high,the 
Diameter feldom above 15 or 16 inches, therind ofa pure ath colour, : 
fullof wrinkles, the leaves about two foot and a half Jong , in bun-. 
ches, juft as ifyoutook twenty large flags, with their flat fides toge- 
ther, and tyed them at the broader ends. - With thefe bunches they. 
thatch houtes, laying every bunch by him(elf on the lathes,fomewhat. 
to overhang one another, as tiles do. Thisis a very clofe kind of 
thatch, keeps dry and is very lafting, and looking up to them on the 
| infide ofthe room , they are the prettieft becomming figures that I 
| have feen of chat kind,thefe leaves grow out no where but at the tops 
ofthe trees. i ea ings 
Another kind of Palmeto there is, which as it hath an addition to Dalaeins 
the name,hath likewife anaddition tothe nature: for! believe there is Royal, 
hot a more Royal or Magnificent tree growing on the earth, for 
beauty and largenefs, notto be paralell’d; and excells, foabundantly | 
in thole two properties and perfections, all the reft, as if you had e- : 
ver feen her, you could not but have fallen in love with her; I’m fure’ 
| Lwasextreamly much, and upon good and antique Authority : For if, 
Xerxes {trange Lydian love the Plantane tree, was lov d for herage, | 
why may not [love this for her Jargenef ? [believe here are more Wo- | 
men lov'd forthetr largencfs than their age, ifthey have beauty foran ~~ 
addition, asthis hath, and therefore I am refolved in that poynt, togo 
along with the multitude, who run very. much that way : but how to. 
fet her out inher true thape and colour, without a Pencil, would ask | 
better pen than mine 5 yet Iwilldeliver her dimenfionsas near truth | 
‘as I pee Es pags oe, ch wall a: t of that. But firft) 
I will beg leave of youto fhew her inher infancy, which is about ten 
or twelve years old, at which time fhe is about feaventeen foot high,| 
her body, and her branches, and that part which touches the ground, | ; 
not unlike an. {nkhorne,whichI have feen turn’din Ivory,round.at the | 
-bottome, and. bellied at that part which Holds the Inkes andthe ftem’ 
or body of the:tree, growing lef, as that part which holds the Pens, | 
buttura‘d bya more skilful workman 3 and fome of this body, part | 
tawny, part purple, with Rings of white and green mixt, that go about 2 
her 5. and thefe Rings at fix Inches diftanee. This ftem, tobe about | 
| fix foot anda half high, upon which growes the botrome of the | 
fialks, thin as leaves of parchment, enwrapping one.another fo 
_ | clofe asto make a continued {tem, of the fame bignefs, or two foot and, 
jahalf above the other, every ftone of thofe filmes or. skins, bearing | 
a ftalk, which leffens {0 tafcafibly, fromthe skin to the poynt, as none 
but the great former of all beauty canmake the like. 
. Thefe ftalks or, branches,,..arc of feveral lengths, thofe that are 
| the molt inwardyare the higheft, and every onc of thofe ftalks adorn’d 
| with leaves, beginning. a litcle from the filmes to the poynt, and all 
| thee Leaves like Cylinders, tharp at either end, and biggelt in the’ 
dle: that part of the {tem which isthe enwrappings of the filmes! 
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_ jofa puregrallgyrcen, thiping as parchment dyed green, and flicke| 
| with a. flick-(tone, and As a BRE with the leaves, of a full grafs} 
| green {preading every way, and the higheft of them eight foot above | 
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