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to be difFerent* fometimes feeing fome 80 feet higher 
more of a very confiderable thicknefs feemingbut one bo- 
dy, but bearing 10 or 12 different forts of lea ves:» QoW'- 
fruits Which feemed amazeing ac firft, but 
from better examination they proved to be fo many fe ve- 
ra! forts growing up Hederaceoufly togethen complicateing 
rhemfeivs into one body, others with their boughs falling 
to the ground or dropping roots from their branches grow- 
ing up again employing a large fpace of ground, and fome- 
times fo neatly growing that they feemed rather to be a 
ftately l^alace with its curious P^//^r J" and Arches ^^hzxazXi 
uncultivated wood; which Vmhrellds Providence hath 
wonderfully beftowed on thefe hot Countries which are 
very pleafant and fruitful as if each part \^ ere cultivated 
by skilful and mduftrious hands. 
This rich Country he tells you is extended from the City 
of Ga^ to the ComonneVxox'^.om.cyVj \^o German and 
about 30 broadj abounding in all neceffaries both for meat- 
and medicine. He feems mightily to commend the unex- 
preflible cunning of iki€\x goverment ^ their Theology -AVid 
Politicks fo well mixed, one depending upon the othcr^that 
the fame may in probability hold to the worlds end. 
The two fiirft parts of this 7P£?r>^ wereefpecially compi- 
led by the Reverend and skilful D.y. ^V^^nW a Divine in 
the City oi Cochin f where then lived D.P. Herman the pre- 
fent Botanic!^ P^ofejfor at Leyden^ a perfon cf excellent ex- 
perience and skill, and no fmall inftrument in this -wor^^ 
with his affiilance therej which D. Cajearius K\itn dying 
before the finiflimgof the work 2). van'B^eed tcoktohis. 
affiftance the well experienced D. y. Munnicks now Pro- 
fejfor dX Vtrecht for xht ^rokcmloxi and cnr rpletion of his 
defigned work, to which D.J.Commelinushdilhht^osNtd 
his curious Notesjbut tells us that this third vohime Ihould 
have been more properly the fecond, coufifting rnoft of 
trees as the firft doth ; and the fecond fliould hav« been the 
hji containing Shrubs and Plants , in which are 64 whole 
flieet plates of Sculptures rarely done. I^^ 
