Part II. 
Of Nuts. 
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ladiva. Tent are are, in the Language of the JJland. Defcribed 
by Cbioccus (a) out of Clufim and Garcias ab Horto 5 and well (*) Mufeum 
figur’d. Pifo (b) alfo hath the Defcription and Figure,toge- Mauriffe 
ther with a prolix Difcourfe hereof. They are faid to be Aromatics, 
no where found, except upon the Sea-fhore. Nor is the c ‘ ip ' 
Tree it felf to be feen any where in the JJland. The entire 
Nut , fomewhat like a double Box, or a pair of Panniers. 
This half, about a foot long, and near i a foot broad 5 a 
kind of half Oval 5 yet flat on that fide, where the two halfs 
are conjoyn’d. Thefhell about nb of an inch thick, and 
as hard as that of a Coco-Nut. As black as a Coal. This 
is empty 5 but originally they contain a certain white Pulp, 
of no great Taft. 
Of this Pulp both the People and Princes of Malabar 
have a high opinion, as if of great Virtue againft mod 
Difeafesjefpecially in cafe of Poyfon,or Eplepick_ and other 
like Affections. So that fometimes they value them at about 
five and twenty pounds a Nut. ’Tis alfo highly com¬ 
mended for the fame purpofes, by Pifo, both from the ex¬ 
perience of others, and his own. They fometimes make 
Drinking-Cups of the Shells, and tip them with Silver or 
Gold-Plate. ’Tis Death for any to be known to take up 
any of them 5 becaufe thofe things that are call upon the 
fhore, are the Kings. 
The COCO-NUT. The Fruit of a very tall Tree, 
both in the Eaft and Weft-Indies, growing only upon the 
top of it. Mention’d by many Writers of Natural Hiftory, 
but not by any one diftinftly deferib’d. As by one fent 
mefrefh by Mr. Sam. Moody from Jamaica, I had the op¬ 
portunity to obferve. Here are three of them entire. The 
bigeft whereof is about a foot in length, and one and * in 
compafs. With three fides, one whereof more flat 5 bel¬ 
ly’d in the middle, and fomewhat Conick at both ends 5 
fo that it is a kind of Sphasrical Triangle. The Husk or 
outmoft part of the Nut on the Tides, about an inch thick 5 
at the Corners, an inch and 7 5 almoffwholly confifting of 
tough woody Fibers ; fo that being cut tranfverjly , it looks 
like a ftiff Scrubbing-Brufh. Next within this Fibrous Part, 
lies the Shell, brown, hard, and brittle, like a Plum-Stone 5 
the 7 of an inch in thicknefs 5 about three inches Diametre, 
and of an Oval Figure, not much unlike that of an 
Oftriches, 
