448 



large and ancient tamarind tree, of more ex- 

 tended l^ranches, and wider trunk than the an- 

 tique oaks, or fpreading elms, whicfcrare fome- 

 times feen to grace the door- way of 5ur old 

 Englifh dwellings. The tamarind is of the 

 Mimofa tribe, and may be regarded as a very, 

 handfom-e example of the vegetable creation. 

 ' It bears an immenfe quantity of fruit, which 

 hangs in a filiquofe form, among the fmall 

 leaves, and the numerous pods being of a dirty 

 brown colour they give a fingular appear- 

 ance, wathout adding to the beauty of the tree. 

 Upon this old ornament of the manfion were 

 hanging many bufhels — perhaps I might fay 

 many hcgfheads of tamarinds, which were left 

 to fall ufelefs to the ground. Efteemed as this 

 fruit is in Europe, in its preferved ftate, it 

 feems to be as little valued here, as the common 

 crab of the hedges in England, and is equally 

 neglefted, not being confidered worth the labor 

 of gathering, or the expence of the fugar re- 

 quired in preferving it. : 



END OF THE FIRST VOLUME, 



'Strahan and Prefion, 

 Printers-Street. 



i^g 69 7" 



