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have formerly defcribed, [Vol. I. p. 165.] 
by the Name of the Cotton-tree. The 
other two forts I never faw any where but 
here. The Trees of thefe latter forts 
are but fmall in comparifon of the former^ 
, which are reckon’d the biggeft in all the 
WeB~India Woods ; yet are however of a 
good bignefs and heighth. One of thefe 
laft forts is not fo full of Branches as the 
other of them ; neither do they produce 
their Fruit the fame time of the Year ; 
for one fort had its Fruit juft ripe, and 
was fhedding its Leaves while the other 
fort was yet green, and its Fruit fmall and 
growing, having but newly done bloffom- 
ing ; the Tree being as full of young Fruit 
as an Apple-Tree ordinarily in England. 
Thefe laft yield very large Pods, about 6 
Inches long, and as big as a Man’s Armi 
It is ripe in September and OSiober ; theil 
the Pod opens, and the Cotton burfts out 
in a great Lump as big as a Man’s Head* 
They gather thefe Pods before they open : 
otherways it would fly all away. It 
opens as well after ’tis gathered ; and then 
they take out the Cotton, and preferve it 
to fill Pillows and Bolfters, for which ufe 
’tis very much efteemed ; but ’tis fit for no- 
thing elfe, being fo Ihort that it cannbt 
be fpun. ?Tis of a tawney Colour ; and 
the Seeds are black, very round, and as 
big as a white Pea. The other fort is ripe 
