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nuts, which grow in very large clufters, 

 are globular, in magnitude equal to a 

 large grape fhot. They are covered 

 with a yellbw pulpy fubftance, about 

 two lines in thicknefs, which is ex- 

 tremely delicate and pleafant ; within 

 this pulp is a hard fhell, containing a 

 kernel, which is the embryo of a fu- 

 ture tree. 



The Cokarito Tree refembles the 

 former, but is very fhort, feldom more 

 than thirty feet in height. It produces 

 the mod delicate and agreeable cab- 

 bage of any of the Palm kind. Its 

 nuts, though fcmewhat like the former, 

 are lefs agreeable. The external fnb- 

 ftance of its trunk, on account of its 

 exceffive hardnefs, is formed into point- 

 ed fplinters, which being invenomed 

 by the poifon of Woorara, are ufed for 

 the points of their fmall poifon arrows ; 



which 



