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time, fheis 80 foot high, and continues that form, without variation; 
only as (he growes older; fo taller and larger; and has-alwayes green} 
yellow, and purple fruit, fucceeding one another $’ whether there be 
| bloflomes, I-know not; ‘for I-‘never wént'fo high as'to- look. This 
|dfort of trees have een ofall fies, from’tén, to two hundred’ ‘foot 
|high 5 andoP have been‘told by fome: of the antient Planters >> that 
}when ‘theyveame firlt apon theTiland ,“ they have feérfome of them 
|three hundred foot high::Aind {ome reafons [ have to perfwade meto 
believe it 5 fox, amongft chofe that F have {een growing , which I have | 
|-gueft to bé-two hundred foot high, the bodies of which I meafured;| 
j and found tobe but fixteeninches diameter. °‘And I onéé found itia 
| wood,a tree: lying, which {eemed to have been long’ fallen 3 for, the 
| young wood was{o grown about her , “as ftanding atone end, I could 
| not fee the other: But, having a couple of Negros with me, that were 
| axe-men;: Jcaufed them to cut away ‘the*wood that-gtew about the 
tree, that might come to'the‘other end, which thought would ne- 
j ver be done, the: was fo'longyand yet'a great part of her'cut off , and 
| carried away.. Imeafuredithedianteter'6f her{tem, arid found it to be 
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|-cdNowafwe gooey therwie of Threexpand fay’; if 26 inches diameter | 
| |make200 foot high , whar’fhall 25 inches > And by'this rule we thall 
| prove her to be 312 fodehight: But thebranches of this tree were all 
: |earried away';:fothat Ecould feenone of them. BatPhave meafured | 
a branch of one of thofe:trees of 200 foot high; and found it 25 foot 
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25 foot long; What {hall a Tree of 312 foot high ‘do? “AndI fee by 
the fame Rule, it ‘appears'to be 39 foot long. And one of thefe trees, 
after fhe comes to bear fruit, will have novlef® that¥ 20. branehes at’ 
onece,.( but many. more’ iiPhernonage)<and halfe of them hold’ this 
length. /have:feen: a branch‘of one of thefe {mall-tree of 200 foot 
| thigh, fallea down and blown from the tree in the falling; twenty 
| paces off; whicli has made me ‘admiré from -whenee it fhould comes) 
Farthe tree being of fo great a heiglit,the branches lofe ‘much of their} 
+ bignef$ and; length. by their: diftance' But, lying on the ground , 
3 where wecan take thejuftmealtre ;-we find what’'they are.- And it 
| isan-admirable thing, ‘to (ee the formof this {prig of branch, whichis 
not above two inches brdad where it joynes to the film, and is leffen- | 
jing ofthe breadth fromthat' end tothe point , whieh i*twenty five 
foot long, forinfenfible, as it isnot poffible to difcerwhere the dimi-| 
_ |nutionis. So fmooth, {oeven, : fo firme and toughy as though it were ; 
_|not wood, ‘tis much ftronger,and ablet to’endure the weather, orany | 
kind ofbending. The leaves that grow upon this ftalk; are o> | 
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