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noted, that fome of their rootes are totally putrify'd, fame only 
in part 5 the reft being of another kind of more Vegetable-like 
confidence whileft the Boughes and Trunk are of another Na- 
ture. Several of thefe are to be feen at the Lord Mordants at 
Pdrfons-green, where you may fee thofe Accretions ot S tone on 
the Boughes. And thefe Accretions are often loofe, and move- 
able, as Beads on a firing. But the Nitrous Stone was loft in 
the bringing. There are alfo fome of thefe Trees like Bucks- 
horns, but broke by the way, with their particular excrefcences, 
that are beautify'd with ftars imprinted in them. 
5. Of the Water at the Point of Jamaica (concerning which 
I formerly noted, that at the faid Point, wherever you digg f or 
6 Foot, it will appear ebbing and flowing as the Tide ) I Ml 
further obferve, 1 hat, though the Sand does fo percolate, that 
you find it upon digging fo deep 5 yet from that Sand there ari- 
feth no fteam into the Air , notwithftanding the heat of the 
Country. For proof hereof, I obferv'd, that Men would lie all 
night, and fleep on the Sands without hurt . And (to take no- 
tice of that particular on this occafion ) 'tis an ufual thing for 
the VVeavill (or fly, that breeds in Meal, Currants, Raifins, 
to be thus cured : After that the Sun hath heated the 
Sand, they fpread a Sheet, and on that fpread their Meal, Cur- 
rants, dxthe Sand being hot under, the faid Weavils or wing'd 
Animal (which yet flies not) retire from the bottom to the up- 
per parts-, and thefe being heated, they retire all into the mid- 
dle, and thence, being heated, they are forced to rUn away out , 
and are fo fwept away. And if you fpread the Sheet on the 
firm ground, though never fo much heated with the Sun^ it will 
prefently grow damp there, and the Weavils will lodge them- 
felves at the bottom 3 fo as that you can never feparate them 
any where elfe, but onthefand. Alfo in the nights I obfer- 
ved, that between the other ground and our pendulous H macks 
there gather'd not only a greater cold- 
nefs * of Air, but alfo moifture, than * This is thereat that 
was obfervable at the Point, when we Z^rnZtk^ "** 
hung in the like pofture. It is true ? that 
the reafon is obvious, why there fhould be an Aire under the/w- 
palfage betwixt the Hamack and the ground, which is not ob- 
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