NORTH AMERICA, 
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the leaves are lanceolate and entire, two or three 
Inches in length and one in breadth, of a deep green 
Colour, andpolifhed ; at the foot of each leaf grows 
a ftiff fharp thorn ; the flowers are fmall and in 
clutters, of a greenifli yellow colour, and fweet 
fcented ; they are fucceeded by a large oval fruit, 
of the fhape and flze of an ordinary plumb, of a 
fine yellow colour when ripe ; a foft fweet pulp co- 
vers a nut which has a thin fhell, enclofing a white 
kernel fomewhat of the confidence and tafte of the 
fvveet almond, but more oily and very much like 
hard tallow, which induced my father, when he firlt 
obferved it> to call it the tallow-nut. 
At the upper end of this bluff is a fine orange 
grove. Here my Indian companion requefted me 
to fet him on Chore, being already tired of rowing 
tinder a fervid fun, and having for fome time inti- 
mated a diflike to his fltuation. I readily complied 
with his defire, knowing the impoffibility of com- 
pelling an Indian againft his own inclinations, or 
even prevailing upon him by reafonable arguments, 
when labour is in the queflion. Before my veffel 
reached the fliore, he fprang out of her and landed, 
when uttering a fhrill and terrible whoop, he bound- 
. ed off like a roebuck, and I lofi: fight of him, 
I at firfl: apprehended, that as he took his gun with 
him, he intended to hunt for fome game and return 
to me in the evening. The day being excefiively 
hot and fultry, I concluded to take up my quarters 
here until next morning. 
The Indian not returning this mornings I fat fail 
alone. The coafls on each fide had much the fame 
appearance as already deferibed. The palm-trees 
here feem to be of a different fpecies from the cabbage 
tree* their ftraight trunks are iixty, eighty, or ninety 
I feet 
