Part II. 
Of Nuts. 
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ladiva. Taw arc art, in the Language of the I ft and. Defcribed 
by Chioccus {a) out oiClufimand Gar 3^1 as ab Florto^ and well g^feum 
figur d. Pifo \i) alfo hath the Defcripnon and? Figurc,toge- ( ^ Mmtiffx 
ther with a prolix Difcourfe hereof. They are faid to be Aromatic, 
no where founds, except upon the Sea-fiiorc. Nor is the c " Ip ' 
Tree it felf to be feen any where in the IJIand. The entire 
Nut, fomewhat like a double Box, or a pair of Panniers. 
This half, about a foot long, and near 5 a foot broad 5 a 
kind of half Oval 3 yet flat on that fide, where the two halfs 
are conjoynd. The fhell about '<th of an inch thick, and 
as hard as that of a Coco-Nut. As black as a Coal. This 
is empty 5 but originally they contain a certain white Pulp, 
of no great Tarf. 
Of this Pulp both the People and Princes of Malabar 
have a high opinion, as if of great Virtue again!! moft 
Difeafes^efpecialy in cafe of Poyfon,or Epilepticl^md other 
like Affections. So that fometimes they value them at about 
five ; and twenty pounds a Nut. 7 Tis alfo highly com- 
mended for the feme purpofes, by Pi jo, both from the ex- 
perience of others, and his own. They fometimes make 
Drinking-Cups of the Shells, and tip them with Silver or 
Gold- Plate. Tis Death for any to be known to take up 
any of them 3 becaufe thofe things that are caff upon the 
fhore, are the Kings. <■ 
The COCO-NUT. The Fruit of a very tall Tree, 
both in the Eaft and Weft-Indies, growing only upon the 
top of it. Mention d by many Writers of Natural Hillory, 
but not by any one diilinctly defcrib'd. As by one fent 
mefrefhby Mr. Sam. Moody from Jamaica, I had the op- 
portunity to obferve. Here are three of them entire. The 
bigeft whereof is about a foot in length, and one and I in 
compafs. With three fides, one whereof more flat 5 bel- 
ly 'd in the middle, and fomewhat Conick at both ends 5 
fo that it is a kind of Spherical Triangle. The Husk or 
outmoft part of -the Nut on the fides, about an inch thick 5 
at the Corners, an inch and ! 3 alrnoll wholly confining of 
tough woody Fibers 3 fo that being cut tra?ifverjly, it looks 
. like a ftiff Scrubbing-Bmjh. Next within this Fibrous Part, 
lies the Shell, brown, hard, and brittle, like a Plum-Stone $ 
the * of an inch in thicknefs 3 about three inches Diametre, 
and of an Oval Figure , not much unlike that of an 
Oftriches? 
