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50 and produce from inciions at the top, the toddy or liquor drawn from them, of which the arrack that is made,is eteemed; much better than that from the cocoa-nut tree. They-are generally cultivated near the ea-ide, as they thrive bet in a andy oil. It is on this tree that the toddy birds, o called from their attachment to-it, build their: exquiitely curious nets, wrought out of the thinnet reeds and filaments of branches, with inimitable mechanim. The birds themelves are about the bignes, of a partridge, but of no conideration either for plumage, ong, or the table.

The banian tree, which is a pecies of fig, grows here to an mous