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three lines ixi thicknefs; fo that ten or twelve 

 leaves J laid one upon another, form at leaft 

 the thicknefs of two or three inches. The 

 bills of paroquets are lomedmes found in 

 tliem, which is a certain fign that they are 

 of a good quaUty. 



I ihail terminate this article with fome 

 remarks on the trade which might be eafily 

 carried on at Timor, fitnated to the fouth 

 of the Moluccas, and to the eafl: of Java. 

 The articles which will find the readicfl fale 

 there, are fufees, gun-flints, powder and ball, 

 piftols, fabres, iron in bars, common toys, 

 cloth of different colours, filver bracelets, 

 coarfe handkerchiefs, and Indian cotton 

 fluffs, a little opium, and Spanifli or Ma-- 

 deira wine of a ropgh flavour. 



In return, one might procure rice, falt- 

 petre, tortoife-fhell, wax, fandal, and fapan 

 wood J and even a little gold. Large quan- 

 tities of cadlangy a kind of fraall beans, which 



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