-OF NATURE. 7* 
Ibrooks are very feldom found there, we cannot 
without wonder obferve that many of them di- 
ftill water 3 and by that means afford the great- 
eft comfort both to man, and beads that tra- 
vel there. Thus the 3 tillandfia , which is a 
par afitical plant , and grows on the tops of trees 
in the defarts of America, has its leaves turned 
at the bafe into the fliape of a pitcher, with 
the extremity expanded ; .in thefe the rain is 
colie&ed, and preferyed for thirfly men, birds, 
and beads. 
The water-tree in Ceylon 
cal bladders, covered with a 
fecreted a moil pure, and 
that taftes like nedlar to me 
mals. There is a kind of cu 
France, that if you break a branch of it, will 
afford you a pint of excellent water. How 
wife, how beautiful is the agreement between 
the plants of every countrey, and its inhabi- 
tants, and other circumftances. 
s A kind of mijjetpg. 
F 4 § 9. 
produces cylindri- 
. lid ; into thefe is 
refrefliing water, 
n, and other ani- 
•ckow-'bint in New- 
