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tions which more immediately require the 

 aid of cultivation ; in defcribing feveral 

 of this clafs, I fhall be able to derive fome 

 affiftance from Mr. Hughes's Natural 

 Hijlory of Barbadoes ; though an ad- 

 herence to truth, and my own obferva- 

 tions, will, in feveral particulars, oblige 

 me to diffent from him ; probably, be- 

 caufe the difference of foil and climate 

 has occafioned a real difference in fome 

 of the productions of Barbadoes and 

 Demerary, though of the fame fpecies. 

 I have premifed this, to avoid the trou- 

 ble of unnecelfary quotations ; and, be- 

 caufe as Pliny juftly fays, " Eft benig- 

 " num et plenum ingenui pudoris fateri 

 " per quos proficeris." Prcefat. 



From thofe productions which are 

 more immediately affifted by cultiva- 

 tion, I fhall defcend into the furround- 

 ing forefts, where Nature fports in pri- 

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