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cxuoiure 



fhriPxks a tree into a flirub, and vice verfa. A fandy or 





ground prod 



fucculent leaves. 



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plants, which, in a rich foil have them thin and flaccid. A plant 

 which is perfedly hairy in a djy foil, lofes all its roughnefs, when 



it is 



found in a moifler iituation : and this frequently caufes the 



difference hetv/een varieties of the fame fpecies in the Friendly 

 Lies, and in the hills of the Society Ifles: for the" former, not be- 



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very hig 



are lefs moifl 



the hills of the latter, which 



are frequently covered v/.ith mifls and clouds. 



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That cultivation caufes great varieties in plants, has been obferved 



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long fince, and can no where be better i^^vi than in the tropical 

 South Sea ifles, where the bread-fruit tree (artocarpiis comjnimis) 

 alone, has four or five varieties; and the D.rac^Nx\terminalis 

 Linn, two y the Tacca, in its cultivated flate, has quite a different 



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appearance from the wild one, and the plantane, or mufa paradifiaca, 

 varies almofci/z infinitum like our apple. The vegetable kingdom 



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furniflies the natives of the tropical lands in the South Sea, with 

 the greatefl part of their food, their clothing, their dwelling, 

 furniture, and every convenience. Li New Zeeland, the natives 

 live chiefly on fifli, and the fpontaneous plants furnilh them with 



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veftments, 



