1830.] 
and of their recent Settlement. 
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The general produce of the isles is the coco* nut palm tree ; the which, when 
thinned out to due distance from each other, may be expected to yield as abun- 
dantly as in any part of the world. 
2nd. A tree producing hard wood, of a dark color, fit for fuel, and for timbers 
of small craft and vessels up to 300 tons. 
3rd. A tree having a leaf resembling, in size and form, the leaf of the box- 
wood — The timber hard and heavy, of a reddish color, fit for small parts of 
machinery, boat’s timbers, &c. The bark, having an uncommonly large portion of 
tan in its composition, is useful for making leather, preserving nets, &c. 
4th. A large straight growing tree, which furnishes poles and small spars for 
rafters, &c. — durable under cover, but subject to rapid decay when exposed to the 
weather. 
5th. A large straight growing tree, leaves and fruit resembling ih * jack in 
the box, of the West Indies. The timber is, however, soft, and of little value. 
6th. A tree frequently of large dimensions, the wood of which decays even 
faster than it dries. Its leaves may he used as greens, and are good food for hoirs, 
and with the trunks supply a considerable quantity of vegetable matter to the soil. 
7th. The tree called Waroo by the Javanese : it is planted by them in front of 
their houses, &c. for its shade and flowers. The timber is useful and durable when 
of large growth ; the bark affords a material for making twine and fishing lines. 
8th. The Chinkanen or Dacfap ; a soft wooded green, thorny, barked tree, 
used in Sumatra for training the pepper vine upon. 
9th, A tree, whose fruit, when cut, resembles plum cake, and may be pickled ; 
its root rasped, and infused into a ley of potass, yields a scarlet dye. 
10th. A very few small scattered trees and shrubbery plants, and two species 
of large trees, furnishing literally fine wood, and growing near the shores. One 
much like the Cripple Hoorn of the Cape of Good Hope, the other something like the 
Wor oo : Also a large tree producing a square nut, of about 6 inches in diameter, 
rusky on the outside. Many species of creeping plants, one or two highly 
antiscorbutic, and may be used as salading grass : about four species, all rough 
and bitterish, not relished by animals. 
The whole of these productions are transportable by the sea, in which the seeds and 
roots of these long retain their germinating power — no countenance is, therefore, 
afforded from any of these, to the idea or doctrine of spontaneous generation. 
Two species of Glume t and the Frigate Bird are particularly abundant on, and 
around these isles.' Many other oceanic birds visit them occasionally. Cranes, 
blueish, grey and white, in small numbers, Sand Pipers, and a species of Sandrail, 
are all the birds, not of the web-footed kinds, which are found about these isles. 
Land crabs, good for food, are plentifully found on them. 
Turtle arc very numerous, — may be caught without difficulty, and furnish a 
nutritive food in all seasons. 
Fish of many species, nearly all of a good taste and flavour, exist in great abund- 
ance all around the isles, and throughout the bay. Ground sharks are not very nume- 
rous, but a small species, having the tips ol the tail and fins of a black colour, is 
rather plentiful. No poisonous fish have yet ben found any where within the isles. 
No seals, alligators, or other amphibious animals, besides turtle, have been seen, 
nor any reptiles or snakes. . 
Since the establishment of the settlement, the following plants, animals, &c. have 
been introduced, and have succeeded, or are likely to succeed, big Iree ; Red Mul- 
berry ; Shaddock; Custard Apple ; Grange ; Lime ; Lingsop ; Jamboo; Allay ; 
Tamarind; Pomegranate; Papnee or Pay pay a ; Mongua ,* Taijnng /Chillies ; 
Aloe; hedge plants; flowering shrubs, sundry plants from the Mauritius, 
names, at present, unknown. Lemon grass, and five species of good grass tor 
cattle, the Cotton Plant from Bourbon, sugar cane, two species ; Plantain and 
Banana, seven species ; Tobacco; Kluddy, an extremely farinaceous sort of a 
large sized Pumpkin; Gourds; Brinjals; water melons; sundry other Indu 
vegetables; sweet Potatoes; common Potatoes, while the “ 
hemisphere ; flag-leaved Leek ; Parsley; Celery ; Cos Lettuce ; Endive ; Mustard 
and Cress. Turnips ; Radishes; and Cabbages thrive, but we have not suc- 
ceeded in obtaining seed from them. Maize, very productive, flourishes througho it 
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the thermometer in the warmest season is from 78° to 8t> , in the coldest from 7- to 
81 ° : the general winds are from southward to eastward, subject to interruptions from 
