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miles of the fea, is covered with trees 

 of Manicole, which are univerfally 

 efteemed a fare mark of a rich fertile 

 foil, wherever they are found. 



The Silk Cotton Tree, in the order 

 of height, mould have been considered 

 immediately after the Cabbage Tree, 

 but I thought it mod convenient to de- 

 fcribe thofe of the Palm fpecies, in 

 courfe. It is near one hundred feet 

 in height, and about twelve feet in 

 circumference. The trunk is covered 

 with a light grey bark, ftudded with 

 ftiort thick prickles. It continues un- 

 divided by branches until it is feventy 

 or eighty feet from the ground. At 

 the extremities of each branch are fe- 

 ven long narrow leaves, orbicularly dif- 

 pofed, with fuch regularity, that they 

 appear like fo many fedtions of one di- 

 gitated leaf. Juft without thefe arife 

 femicircular rofaceous flowers, confift- 

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