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THE TRAVELS OF
employed in cocoa-nut groves, palm-trees, &c.
As to the cocoa-nut tree itſelf, not all the minute deſcriptions I have heard of it, ſeem to me to come up to the reality of it's wonderful properties end uſe. Nothing is ſo unpromiſing as the aſpect of this tree; nor does any yield a produce more profitable, or more variouſly beneficial to mankind: it has ſome reſemblance to the palm-tree; perhaps one of it's ſpecies. The leaves of it ſerve for thatching; the huſk of the fruit for making cordage, and even the largeſt; cables for ſhips. The kernel of it is dried, arid yields an oil much wanted for ſeveral uſes, and forms
a con-
