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and is fplit into a fpecies of thin narrow 

 boards, which, in this country, fre- 

 quently ferve domeftic purpofes. It 

 produces neither flowers nor nuts, but 

 a Ipatha, which arifes near the top, 

 and divides into twenty or thirty un- 

 even woody chords, or fibres. Thefe 

 are here called Broms, for which they 

 are ufed. The Cabbage Tree is com- 

 mon in many of the Weft-India Iflands, 

 but the Eta, Cokar-Eta, and Manicole, 

 feem peculiar to Guiana and "Terra Fir- 

 ma. The cabbage which they afford, 

 is tender, delicate, and agreeable, and 

 is either boiled, or eaten as a fallad* 

 but a long continued ufe of it, has 

 here been found to generate flatulen- 

 cies and diarrhoeas j thefe effedts, 

 however, may be in a great meafure 

 prevented, by the copious ufe of red 

 pepper. Almoft the whole furface of 

 the earth on this coaft, within fifty 



miles 



