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The Cocoa Nut Tree is a fpecles of 

 Palm, and has been defcribed as pro- 

 ducing not only food and raiment, but 

 almoft all the neceffaries of life. 

 The trunk arifes from a large clufter of 

 fmall fibrous roots, and grows about 

 fifty feet in height, undivided by branches 

 until very near its top. Its pofition is 

 feldom eredt, and its magnitude often 

 lefs at the middle than at either end. 

 Its bark, from the ground to the height 

 where the branches commence, is of 

 an afh colour, and from thence it be- 

 comes green. The branches are be- 

 tween twenty and thirty in number, 

 and about fifteen feet in length. Their 

 footftalks, as they arife from the trunk, 

 are inclofed in a ftrong reticular web- 

 like plexus, which is the cloathing this 

 tree has been laid to afford. On two 

 oppofite fides of the branches are dif- 

 D pofed 



