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the queen, and who made, what £he called, Drawings ; thofe 

 of plants were fo little charac"teriftic,that it was^ftrictly fpeak- 

 ing, impoflible, without a very great confideraiion, to know 

 one plant from another ; while there was, at fame time, a 

 man of the greateft merit, M. de Seve, abfolutely without 

 employment; tho',in my opinion, he was the beft painter of 

 every part of natural hiftory either in France or England. 



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nnHIS beautiful tree, now prefented to the reader, is the 

 -*- production of the fouth and S. W. parts of Abyffinia. 

 It is very frequent, and, with the ebony, almofl the only wood 

 of the province of Kuara, of which it bears the name; indeed 

 in all Fazuclo, Nuba, and Guba, and the countries where 

 there is gold. It is here defigned in its natural fize both 

 leaves, flowers, and fruit, the whole fo plainly, that it is 

 needlefs to defcant upon its particular parts, well known to 

 naturalifts. It is what they call a Corallodendron, probably 



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