1600 Ch ap.43, 
Tbeatmn c Botankunt. 
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by the windc and waves to thole Ifiandsare next thereunto, fwhich I thinkc in iome part may be protable) but 
that they adde.that this Iflind is (eene by fome that looke not for ir, but cannot be found by them that feeke ^al¬ 
though »s they fay, the King hath caufed fundry times fearch to be made for it,ftill they that have beene fent have 
returned afrightedand terry Red by (pints, that they have given it over and returned with fuch anfwers, which 
in my opinion are mcere fables and noyfed of purpofe to keepe the Nut in morceftimation. But in my judge¬ 
ment if the truth might be fearched exa£Iiy,by flout and not timerous perlons, by religious not fuperflitious, as 
mod of the Indians are, and by j'udicious and indudrious men, and not vveakelings, and fooles, the tree that bca- 
reth thefe fruites would be found to grow on the Land, whether Continent or Ifland is no matter, and that if it 
lx true that thefe Nuts are onely found on the fhores.as the Sea calteth them up.for even of thatreport I am more 
then halfe doubtfull) when they are ripe and lalne, the windes carry them from off the Land whereon they are 
faliie, intotheSea, andfoare taken upon thofe Iflands: but yet me thinkes it is fomewhat hardly to be belee- 
ved, that thele Nuts fhouldbe carryed by the Sea to the ccalles of no other Countries, but thefe iflands although 
they be (o many, for the report is that they are not found in any part of the world befides. Andlalily, to finifh 
this tedious difeourfe to fhew my opinion how thefe (ifthey be fables) may be blowne away, and the truth cer¬ 
tainly knowne, viz,. if cither thefe Wanders, that is,the King, orfomc of the Naturalls, or elfe lome Chridi- 
ans or others in thofe parts would make choyfe of the frefheft they could finde ofthefe Nuts, and to putboth 
divers of them,and at fundry times into the ground, to fee whether they would not fpreue forth, and fpring, for 
it is probable, that as they are in the inner kernell, i ke to the ordinary Cokar Nut, which hath a bud therein that 
hath and will grow', as is fhewed before, This Nut alfo foneerely rcfembling it, asis (hewed, might at one 
time or another fpring and grow, and take away all other doubts and tables, whatfucverareforepafkd : This 
my opinionhow it wit! be accepted I know not, but if any by the tryail thereof fhould raifeatrcc or more, it 
would provea wotkeno leffegainefuilthen memorable toallpollcrity. 
Chap. XLIII. 
Tiux Mojcbat.-t. The Nutmeggc tree, 
sadSdeflS&HeNutmeggetree, and folikewife the fruite are of two forts exaflly obferved by Clttfnu, andby 
hi m called WAS and ftmina, the m.u beareth the greater and the longer Nutmegge,the letter and roun- 
1 der the female, and the mod ordinary with us, the tree whereof is reported by them that have 
fecnethem, to be very great, and as tall ailmott as our Pcare trees, fpreading many branches, which 
' are grecne while they are young, having faire broad leaves fet thereon, fomewhat longer then Eay 
leaves, or to compare them more truely, like unto the Orrenge tree leaves, but without the lower peeces, and 
IVtitir Mefihete termer gettuinit. 
A (rue branch of the Nutmegge tree,with the fruite. 
Nf.r MofchatafcufruQui integertmifua eumtegumemo 
CMaeis.cortice nigro dr rate inter iorc ret antic Or huge. 
The whole Nutmegge cm in the midJlt.the hard tlicll with the 
Macn both on it,and of it,and the Nutmegs both long & round. 
not 
