which are forced by the lungs through 

 hollow reeds, a confiderable diftance. 



The Manicole is the fm all eft of all 

 the Palm kind ; though it often grows 

 ftraight, eredt, and gently tapering, to the 

 height of forty or fifty feet, yet its dia- 

 meter feidom exceeds eight or nine in- 

 ches. It is covered with a light brown 

 bark, clofely adhering to the wood $ 

 this, however, about three feet below 

 the top, changes to a green colour, and 

 forms a hufky integument to the cab- 

 bage, which is about the fize of a man's 

 *wrift, and near three feet in length, 

 refembling that of the Cabbage Tree, 

 as does its leaves and branches, but they 

 are much fmaller and fliorter. The 

 trunk has joints, within two or three 

 feet from each other, its whole length. 

 Its external hard ligneous fubftance is 

 not above half an inch in thickneft, 



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