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The fruit of Trees there of the fame kind ripen not at one 
time: There is a Hedge of Plum-trees of two miles long, as 
you go to the Spanifh-Town , on it I have many times remars 
ked tome Trees in Fiercer, others with Ripe , others with Green 
fruit, and others to have done bearing, at the fame time. The 
hkelhaveobferved in other Trees. Ja/mins I have feen to 
blow before their leaves, and alfo after their Leaves are fain, 
again. 
The Sower- fop^ a pleafant fruit there, hatha flower with 
three leaves ; when thefeopen, they give To great a crack, that 
I have more than once run from under the Tree, thinking it 
s$I to be tumbling down. 
There is a Bird, called a Tellican, but a kind of Cormorant , 
that is of tafle Fifhy, but if it lye buried in the ground but two 
houres, it will lofe that tafte, as I have been told for certain* 
I tryed fome Analyfis of Bodies by letting Antse at them** 
and I found that they would eat Brown Sugar White , and at laft 
reduce it to an lnfipid powder. So they reduced a pound of Sal. 
let-oyl to two drams of powder. 
At our firft coming there, wo fweat continually in great 
drops for three quarters of a year, and then it ceafeth: During 
that fpace I could not perceive my felf or others more dry, 
more coftive, or to make lefs Urine, than in England. Neither 
does all that fweat make us faintifh. If one be dry, it is a thirft 
generally arifing from the heat of the Lungs, and affe&ing 
the mouth; which is beft cooled by a little Brandy. 
Mo ft Creatures drink little or nothing there, as Hogs $ nay, 
Horfes in Guanaboa never drink; nor Gows in fome places 
of the ifland for fix months ; Goats drink but once perhaps in 
a week. Parrots never drink, nor Parrokets ;nor Civet-Cats, 
but once a month. 
The hotteft time of the day to us, is Eight in the morning, 
when there is no Bri^e. I fet a weather-glafs in the window, 
to obferve the weather, and I found it not to rile confiderably 
at that time., but by two of the clock it rofe two inches. 
Venice Treacle did fo dry in a Gally-pot,as to be friable ; and 
then it produced a Ply, called a Weavil, and a fort of white- 
worm. So did the filute de Tribus produce a Weavil 
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