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The Torch y fo call'd by the European Inhabitants- by the Native Iflanders, Ahu- 

 lerou ; a great Thiftle, or thorny Bufh, putting forth from the middle of it long 

 ftreight Stalks like Torches, and bearing Fruit like a great Fig, not unpleafing to 

 the tafte. 



The Lienes, creeping upon the Earth, and fpreading up and down like Ropes, 

 and bearing brown Husks of a Foot long, wherein are enclos'd a Fruit call'd 6><a- 

 Cbefinuts, of which are made Boxes to keep Snufh, Tobacco, or the like. 



A fort of SemperYiVum, which runs twilling upon Rocks, Trunks of old Trees, 

 like Miflcltoe, and fometimes on the Ground. 



A fort of fenfitive Plant, call'd by the Inhabitants Haefiiel, or The Living Herb - 

 of which kind of Plant fomething hath been already touch'd upon, and which be- 

 ing tranfplanted, is kept in feveral Gardens of the Curiofi as a Rarity, 



The Sweet^ujb, whofe fmall Root dry'd, and redue'd to Powder, helps Women 

 inTravail. 



The Balifier, whofe Leaf apply 'd, mollifies and cools inflammations of Wounds.' 

 The Dart-Herb, whofe Root bruis'd and apply'd, draws away the Venom of 

 empoyfon'd Darts 5 befides Scolopendria, a fort of Aloes, feveral kinds of Maiden- 

 hair, and other medicinal Herbs. 



The GranadiUa, or tPafiionsFlower, 'growing in feveral other parts of America, and 

 defcrib'd elfewhere. 



There is alfo a fort of Peafe in fome of thefe Iflands, differing from ours, and 

 callM Thefeafe of Angola, as firft brought from thence. Likcwife a fort of Beans 

 call'd The Seven-years Beans, by reafon the fame Stalk bears feven years one after 

 another. 



The Herb call'd The Musk-Herb, from the dusky colour of its Flower, and the 

 fweet fcent of the Seed, grows alfo in thefe Parts very frequent. 



The (pyman, or American Pepper, is the fame with that before defcrib'd under the 

 Name of Axi. 



Their Totatoe is a Root not unlike the Topinambous, or Jerufalem* Artichokes, other- 

 wife call'd Saligots, growing plentifully in our Gardens, but more whoifome, and 

 of a better tafte. 



The Ananas, or Vine- Apple, accounted a mod delicious Fruit, of an admirable 

 fweet fcent, and very pleafant to behold, grow not bnefy plentifully in thefe 

 Iflands, but in moft places of America • befides the Sugar-Canes here, and in many 

 other places, but not fo generally. 



The Plant from which is got the Dying Material call'd Indico, is very different 

 from that which grows in Madagafcar, which bears fmall odoriferous Flowers, of a 

 white and purple Colour mix'd together. 



Of thefe Trees, Herbs, and other Plants, which areprodue'd in thefe Caribbee 

 Iflands, fome are more peculiarly of the Growth of one Ifland, fome of another 5 fo 

 that we (hall have occafion to fpeaJc more largely of fome of them, when we come 

 to fpeak of each Ifland in particular. 



The four-footed Beads found in thefe Iflands, are chiefly the Opajfum, the Javarti, 

 the Tatan, the Agouty, and the Mttshfyt, which being all of them no lefs known in 

 other Parts of the New World, have been already taken notice of, and of which we 

 may have alfo occafion to treat more at large in the particular Iflands, we fhall 

 therefore onely name the other Animals, whether Birds,Reptiles, InfecT:s,or Fifties, 

 as partly having been heretofore treated of, and partly to be defcrib'd hereafter. 

 The Birds are, the Fregates, FauVes, CraTb-fo'tol, or Grandgawfers, Flammans, Swallows 

 tf America, Arras, Canides, Parrots, Tarroquito's, Trembto's, Sparrows of Amerit a, Eagles 



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