APPENDIX. 
T H E Y E L L O W RESIN TREE. 
This is about the fize of an Englifli walnut tree. Its 
trunk grows pretty ftraight for about fourteen or fixteen 
feet, after which it branches out into long fpiral leaves, 
which hang down on all fides, and refemble thofe of the 
larger kinds of grafs or fedge. From the center of 
the head of leaves arifes a fingle footftalk, eighteen or 
twenty feet in height, perfedly ftraight and erect, very 
much refembling the fugar cane, and terminating in a fpike 
of a fpiral form, not unlike an ear of wheat. This large ftem 
or footftalk is ufed by the natives for making fpears and 
gigs, being pointed with the teeth of R(h. or other animals, 
fome of which are reprefented, in the plate of Implements, 
from originals now in Mr. Wilfon's polTeflion. 
But the moft valuable produce of this plant feems to be 
its refin, the properties of which vie with thofe of the moft 
fragrant balfams. This reftn exudes fpontaneoufly from the 
trunk ; the more readily, if inciftons are made in its bark. 
It is of a yellow colour; fluid at firft, but being infpiftated 
in the fun, it acquires a folid form. Burnt on hot coals, it 
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