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"Bursts from its pod the vegetable down."
Cotton. (Gossypium herbaceum.)
"The beamy adamant." Diamonds, the hardest and most valuable of precious stones.
For the extraordinary exertions of the Indians in diving for the pearl oysters, see the account of the Pearl Fisheries in Percival's View of Ceylon.
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"But now and then the Sea Snipe's cry," &c.
In crossing the channel this bird is heard at night, uttering a short cry, and flitting along near the surface of the waves. The sailors call it the Sea Snipe;
