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burrough in thefe fandy Soils like Rabbets, and are 

 as Ihy. 



The Ifland is a pleafant Intermixture of Hill 

 and Valley^ the Hills fpread with Paims, Coco- 

 Nuts, and Cotton-Trees, with Numbers of Man- 

 Iceys and Parrots among them \ the Valleys v\rith 

 fruitful Plantations of Tamms, Kulah^ PafaSy Va- 

 riety of Sallating, Ananas^ or Pine-Apples, Gua- 

 *vaSy Tlantanesy Bon an as , Manyocos , and Indian 

 Corn \ with Fowls, Guinea Hens, Mufcovy Ducks, 

 Goats, Hogs, Turkies, and wild Beefs, with each a 

 little Village of Negroes, who, under the Dire^lioni 

 of their feveral Matters, manage the Cultivation, 

 and exchange or fell them for Money, much after 

 the fame Rates with the People of St. Thome. 



I fhall run a Defcription of the Vegetables, with 

 their Properties, not only becaufe they are the Pro- 

 duce of this Ifland, but moft of them of Africa in 

 general. 



The Palm-Trees are numerous on the Shores of 

 Africa^ and may be reckoned the firjR: of their na- 

 tural Curiofities, in that they afford them Meat, 

 Drink and Cloathing ^ they grow very ftraight to 

 40 and 50 Foot high, and at the top (only) have 

 3 or 4 Circles of Branches, that Ipread and make a 

 capacious Umbrella. The Trunk is very rough 

 with Knobs, either Excrefcencies, or the Healings 

 of thofe Branches that were lopped off to forward 

 the Growth of the Tree, and make it anfwer bet- 

 ter in its Fruit- The Branches are ftrongly tied 

 together with a Cortex^ which may be unravelled 

 to a confiderable Length and Breadth • the inward 

 Lamella of this Cortex, 1 know are wove like a 

 Cloath at Benin, and afterwards died and worn : 

 Under the Branches, and clofe to the Body of the 

 Tree, hang the Nuts, thirty Bunches 'perhaps on 

 a Tree, and each of thirty Pound Weight, with 

 prickly Films from between them, not unrefem- 



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