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 Hedge-Hogs; of thee Nuts comes a liquid and pleaant cented Oyl, ued as Food and Sauce all over the Coat, but chiefly in the Windward Parts of Africa, where they tamp, boil and kim it off in great Quantities; underneath, where the Branches faten, they tap for Wine, called Cockra, in this Manner; the Negroes who are motly limber active Fellows, encompas themelves and the Trees with a Hoop of trong With, and run up with a great deal of Agility; at the Bottom of a Branch of Nuts, he makes an Excavation of an Inch and a half over, and tying fat his Calabah, leaves it to detil, which it does to two or three Quarts in a Night’s Time, when done he plugs it up, and chooes another; for if uffered to run too much, or in the Day Time, the Sap is unwarily exhauted, and the Tree poiled: The Liquor thus drawn, is of a wheyih Colour, intoxicating and ours in 24 Hours, but when new drawn, is : It is from thee Wines they draw their Arack in India. On the very Top of the Palm, grows a Cabbage, called o, I believe, from ome reemblance its Tat is thought to have with ours, and is ued like it; the Covering has a Down that makes the bet of Tinder, and the Weavings of other Parts are drawn out into trong Threads.

Coco-Nut-Trees are branch’d like, but not o tall as, Palm Trees, the Nut like them, growing under the Branches, and cloe to the Trunk; the milky Liquor they contain, (to half a Pint or more,) is often drank to quench Thirt, but urfeiting, and this may be oberved in their Way of Nourihment, that when the Quantity of Milk is large, the Shell and Meat are very thin, and harden and thicken in Proportion, as that loes.

Cotton Trees alo are the Growth of all Parts of Africk, as well as the Ilands, of vat Bignes, yet not