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5. Of trees which bear berries, that are 
neither umbilicated or calculated. 
6. Of pruniferous trees, or such as hear 
plumbs. 
7. Of pomiferous trees, or such as bear apples. 
8. Of woods, fruits, rosins, &c. 
On this chapter he makes the following observa- 
tion : — “ The several things described in this 
division, are such as I know very imperfectly, — 
only so far as they are made use of in Jamaica to 
the purposes hereafter recited. I am apt to sus- 
pect that some of them may be before taken 
notice of, and that I have not known them to be 
the vegetables put to those uses here mentioned.” 
This chapter concludes the First Book, or bota- 
nical division of the work. 
The Second Book commences with the account 
of Insects, which he prefaces with this just 
remark, — “ The power, wisdom, and providence 
of God Almighty, the Creator and Preserver of 
all things, appear no where more than in the 
smallest animals called insects, which are provided 
with such senses as are necessary to bring them, 
through their several changes, to perfection : and 
notwithstanding their little bodies, and many 
enemies in every state, they are enabled to live, 
thrive, and propagate their kind, so that, since we 
have any exact history of them, none seem to be 
lost.” He arranges them under the following 
division : 
