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their liquor. There are two kinds found m 
Ceylon; one which yields fmaller fruit, has 
no feeds, and is more rare; the other, bearing 
fruit from thirty to forty pounds weight* 
grows in all parts of the ifland, and produces 
feeds to the number of two or three hundred, 
each of which is four times the fize of an 
almond. Mr. Forfter tells us-, that the bread- 
fruit tree of the South- Sea iiles has four or 
five varieties, all without feed ; which defi- 
ciency he attributes to the effects of cultiva- 
tion ; but as Dr. Thunberg, contrary to his 
nfual accuracy, omits giving the botanical 
names of the bread-fruit tree of Ceylon, it 
cannot be afcertained in what particulars it 
differs from, or agrees with, thofe of the 
Pacific Ocean ; but there can be little doubt 
that they are of the fame genus. If they are. 
deprived of their feeds by cultivation-, they lofe 
a part which in Ceylon is* much efteemed as 
a nutritious and palatable • diet, thefe feeds- 
being prepared for the tables of the rich ia 
different ways. Fried in cocoa-nut oil they 1 
are efteemed a great delicacy ; by the poor 
they are eaten roafted like chefnuts, alone,, 
or mixed with the pulpy pait of the fruit, 
which they alfo frequently eat limply boiled 
or 
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