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48 employed in cocoa-nut groves, palm-trees, &c.

As to the cocoa-nut tree itelf, not all the minute decriptions I have heard of it, eem to me to come up to the reality of it's wonderful properties end ue. Nothing is o unpromiing as the apect of this tree; nor does any yield a produce more profitable, or more variouly beneficial to mankind: it has ome reemblance to the palm-tree; perhaps one of it's pecies. The leaves of it erve for thatching; the huk of the fruit for making cordage, and even the larget; cables for hips. The kernel of it is dried, arid yields an oil much wanted for everal ues, and forms a con-