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brown external tegument, and a thick, 

 hard, black fliell, containing a hard ker- 

 nel in its cavity, to which there is a 

 paflage by a final I circular hole; when 

 the kernel is extracted, without break- 

 ing the ill ell, it refembles a fmall hand 

 grenade, for which it might be a tole- 

 rable fuccedaneum, on account of the 

 weight, thicknefs, and hardnefs of the 

 fliell. The Troolies grow here in great 

 plenty, and are a very valuable produc- 

 tion, ferving, with little trouble, to 

 cover the roofs of houfes in a very ad- 

 vantageous manner, as they will ef- 

 fectually exclude the mod violent rains, 

 and laft for many years. 



The Muccomucco always grows in 

 water, at the edges of rivers. It is 

 ufually at the bottom eighteen or twenty 

 inches in circumference, tapering to its 

 height, where it does not exceed ten 

 lines in diameter. It ufually grows 



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