An Account of a Book

An Account of a BookAn Account of a New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier; Almagestum Botanicums. Phytographiae Pluc'netianae, Onomasticon, etc.Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 19 (1695 - 1697), pp. 426-440Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/102343 .

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An Accoxat of a Nem Foyg-e round 1he [Yorld,- by William [3ampier. Printed atLondon fior JamesKnaptonX at-the Craran in St Paul t

Churchyard. 6g^. -Containzng , 5 8 Paw

ges in OSa2woX and Five Ptates of Maps

q-HE Author dedicates it to the Right -Honoux ] bJe Charles Moostagge, Efq; Prefident of- ti

Royal Society, ChanreSlor of the Exchequer-, lAc. And in his Preface gives an -Account, that from the beginning to the end of his Voyages, h¢ kept a conitant Journal of what occlJrred remarka ble, of which this Relation con-tains a br-ef Account, without being filled with Tranfieripts out of others, too frequently done by *uch as wrould be V-olumi nous. A^ld as he- had the opportunity of vifiting maZ sny Ports and places, Scarce delscriid in any Yoyagess -and for the moR part unknown to Eogii& Navigaw tors, to the Eaft or WeR Ind;es; fo he was the morediligent in hisObServatioras, and the more par ticular inwhis DeScriptions d their Situations soy}& s

Produds, Cc. the greateA part of which are nzade from his own Sperience, arJd the others-from parZ ;ticular informations he received from credible ard knouting .Per-fons. His StySe is zzery lntelligoble and ExpreSive. His Maps are in part tain from Spa- 7¢if ManuScripts, and partly from his own ObEer- fsrations., He deGgned to have added an Appendix

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( 427 ) about Winds, the 8ay of C-vmpecDy} tl;ze Sout&*Jeu: Coall of imerica, and ;]£S particular Voyabe fron Ss2Win to Sgmatra, tgagginX Ralacc4 &¢c. But Srldh ing it would l;sell l<s Book too tnuch,, jo A.S; promifed the Publick to give it in anorller Voe lum.

In this Volame he has in Wutenty Chapters9 gi ten an Account of the Voyages- he made during; near Tuvelve YearsX i. e from the begiazning Ofr 1679* vilen llze l<-ti Etawd) to the middle of S" kmberg l6gI en he rvtalrned hitS,er; fcr tla+> d<- ing-of whiwh he xvas the better qualiSedX as I-lXF ving before that bec-tz in feveral long and dzAanr Voyages. And firS he relates his paIiage t3 yaaa2,

thence to Psrn selafi thwnce crols the lIlI5tnuJ ot Dariea, pcEng in fght of PaSamaintothe S;JuFh Sea, thence G8oaRing Southw7ard, as far as the I{3and of jhn Ferxagdo, and Rat7 there lome time; Ilis retuxn to crofs bacli agasn tI<8 Haid Ilthrw:As into the North Sea. Of this Expedition le is tbe morc brief, becallKe Ringrofe has already Publifhnd trany

PaSages of it. Hou1ever ) sn lais Erft (:hapter hae relateswhatwas retnarka'Dle at veaX after his lfartirtg from SJparp giViNg by tlse by a!fo a deciption of atf Moskito Iffdiaxs; and in the Second Chapter lle re1atz whaF occurred in his Journey by Land back agaiz] oYer the lfbmv onto the Narth-Sea, t^.e way oY-'

wthich is traced by a prickt 1"ne in Llis lhfiaD o; tl.at Country ; buc a more particular Accoun£ of ie hW fays) wermay exped;t from Mr. Wafer's RelasLon of it now fitted for the Prefs.



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The Third Ghapter relates his Remarks -in CruifZ ing on the North Sta^Coaft, arld among& the IIlands, ikorul May I68I. to #ly 168X. where are deNcriZ bed the Ines of- St Atireas, QuiriJaoX Bonairc, Av Socas, tortggas Blaaco, Sc. together with fevert CoaRs, as of Caraccas? Sc. and of feveral RiversF as that of Variex, BlwwfPeilds, Sc. and fesreral Townss as that of Saat Martba, of Rio Lattacha, Coma4 rtarina, &fc. and the Inhabitants of them. By the way alfo yoll have a DeScription of a Mollntain near St. Martba, which the Author thinks much highX er than that of Ecnarif: You will here alto find §everal Animals deScribed, as the;Manati, the SeaX Tortoife or turtle, the Remorat the Guano, the Boobyt the Man of War Bird, tlIe Noddy and Tropick Bird the Egg Bird, Cc. the Souldier Infieds and feveral VegetablesJ as the Cedars, the Sapadillas, the Ma ho, the Manchineel, the Black, Red, and White Mangroves, the Cacao, Trees and Fruit, and the VaZ rinas Tobacco. He inifhes this Cbapter with his Arri sral at girggniaX

In the Fourth Chapter * the Author begins the Account of the tSrR part of his New Voyage ro wards the SouthzSea, which proved afterwards tQ be g (:ircumnavigation of the whole Globe of the Earth He began it in Augd, I683. from Kirgi7siz s and -continues the Accoune of it in the Sixteen- follow {*ig Chapters, tiil SepxmScr the s-6th, x6gt0 wXhen he arrived at tic EXoltttsa To particulatize ln all the [fands, Ports, Coalls, WiverF Towns, and PlaF ces he vifted, Surveyed and Defcribes; together with the NatxYes, their ShapesJ Manters, CuItomsX ClothZ



( 4^9 ) thing, Diet, Art, @c. and the Natural and Artifici al Produd?csof tJlem, as Fith, Birds, BealRs, Infeti Trees, Plants, Fruits, Roots, Mirlerals, Metals, Hou. Sess Uten(ils, Ships or Vefffiels, Cc. woutd be too long for thts Account, for they are rery numerousX and ma nyof them very Curious, Remarkableand lSXezr, and no whereelle to be found in Print : I {hall therefore to horten it, give tlle Names only of the Princtpal ot tholbe he hath taken notice of in tbe whole Courfie of this long Voyage ; referring the Reader for the parti ClilArS, to theBook it felf. In this Follreh Chape ter tllen hn gives an ACCQUnX OF h1S Setting OQT from Krginiv, and his paIEage from Cape Verd, and the Coalts of Africa, his pafTage through tbe Sireight of le Mvir, and CoaRing the South-fide of 1Serra del Fgego , into the South Sea, and thence Northwards to yohx Fernando's Ifland. In the F,fth is continued 11is Courfe thence, in fight of the Aa- des and WeRern American Shoars, to tile Inand Lobow ie la Mar; and thence to the Gallapagos Inands, lla. dcr or near the MEquator; thence to Cape Blaxco, and the Bay of Callera, the IJand and Harbour of Reatcio, the Inands and Gulf of Amapa/- Aa , &t¢.

ln the Sixtll is an Account of his CoaRing from AmapaEa, Southwards by Cape St. FranciJ¢co, and the IIIand la Plata towards Per. And sn the Sew 57enthg Eigllth, and Ninth of his Return, andCoaflc- ing Northwards, as far as under the Tropick of Ca8^ er, and his retutn thence to Cape Corrtettess in

20° w8 of lNlorth Latitude: And by £Ileway he gives a Defcription of the Bark Logs, of the Cat6i, of the Corton, Cabbage, Mam.mee, Sappadillo, Avo

S f f gato



( 43° ) gato Pear, Mammea-fiapota, and Star*Apple, Trees and their Fruit, at:d of divers other Frnits and Drugs' ^as of Cochineel, SilvAefter, SarEaparillaX c. as alfo of divers fith, Birds and Beafis; and a particular DiScourGe about the North-ssteic and NorthveaS Pafl<a- ges, to the lndies from E8ropeX and anotherof the Trade belween Scapnlco and the Magillas, you will here alfo find an ccount of the Soyles, Mountains, Mines, Cc. of theplacesvifited, and of lle Inha bitants Natilre or Strangers.

The Tenth Chapter relates his paSage from Cape Cor- rientes to Gaam, otle of the Ladrones along the South Sea, which he thinks much longer EaR and We{t then all the Maps ufiually make it. Here youZ will tind the Arack DrinkX the C@ire Cabels, the Bread Fruit, the Guam Prous, @¢. D¢fcribed, as alfio the Cocos Plantane and Limes.

The Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Chapters are fpent in the DeScription of the Philipinas and Mindanao; for- in the Eleventh after, he has given a DeScription of the Philiflpiza Iflands, Towns, TnhaB bitants, Trade, Cc. He relates his arriaral at Min danao, and then gives a Defcription of it, and of the natural ProduAs it affiords, as amongIt other he DeScribes the SLibbe Trees, and how they make Bread and Sago of them: The Plantane srees, and how tlley naturally yield brown or white Thread, ready Spun as it were, of which the l\7atisres make Cloath, the Bonanoes Cloves, atid Clove Bark. - Nut- meg* Arecca or Betele Nuts, Jaccas, Cc. tt-he ]3eafisX Fowle, FiSh, tnfedrs, the SeaSons, temperature of the Air, Winds, Sc.

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Xa the TwelAh are Defcribed the Natives s their Habitations their Prowefs, Arts. Trade, Mannerss Cuflcoms, Language, Religton, &h¢. Xn the Thir- teenth the Remarkable Occurrents during their Ray there. And by the by, there is inferted a DiSco- very of fome part of the terra a#ralis Incognita, ia South Lat. w7. and about Five Hundred Leagues from Copayapo on the CoaIl of cbili.

The Fourteenth Cnapter gives an oAccount of their Departure thence, and of the further progrefs of their Voyage about the Inand of Batts, (whcre are found lEatts of a prodigious bignefs ) by Pafgay s

Mixdora, the PraceGs, &c. to P8lo CotPoreJ whicI2 is here deScribed, together with its VegetabI^s, AniZ mals, Sc. as the Tartree, the Mango, the Grape- tree, the BaIlardNutmeg,Ec. and the Cochin China Inhabitants, their Imployment, Language, CuRoms, Bc Then of their Excurfion thexlce to the Illes of ehe Bay o f Sgam, by Palo tJy and their Return to PxlZo Coalor ; and by the by are interfiperfed many con- flderable Remarks.

The Fifteenth Chapter relates eheir Depart thence towards the ManiGas, but their failing thereF inX and falling on the CoaR of Chita, (whereg by the by, are related many remarkable Parti culars concerning thoNe Peopley Sc.) their fiay at St. ^3ohis Inand, and its Defcription, their arrival at the Pircador Illands near Farmofas and theremar kable occurrents there met with. By the way are deScribed Affso Macao, Eormofa, the BaiDee lIlands and their Inhabutants , Soyle, Produce ; their Cu

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( 43* ) fomess Languag¢, Manners} Trades Kinlntfis to the EJfglt> sC.

The Slsteenth C-hapter relates thelr progrefs thence to Tvvo Inands ntar Mindatao^, then their CoaRing along the iLaft Shoar of Celebes s which together ss1ith Zirtatc , Dior, and - otller Spice lllands are here Defcrilledt as alfo vaft great Coc. hless - firange Trees, Sc. And by the way alio ltfiaca0er, CalWxwg, as alSo ehetr paiSage among other lndss asOnzba, tatar£- ZiMor, Cc. from whlch they bend their Courfe for NOrv Zlollanz aSa, and &nd tlaere a Ead Country arld mife- table Inhabitalltsw yet divers thing,s R-emarkabJe

The Seventeenth gives an Account of their Voy- age by the Ifland Lfcas,- and another woody l fland (twhere they found large Craw*filh)- to the

d 1;iCe in <° South Latitude s and to the FJeftS of Sxnxatra. ('Tis full of cocoss though cver fiowed every Spring Tide by the Seaj from thence to XXcgbar Inand (where much Ambergreafe is fbund) thefie area more particularly defcribeds and the lfilla- btants, Trade s t. here the Mellory or- Bread- Tree is alfo dekribed; and the Accident the Author here mer with) are reccunted, as his eavmg his Companions and- wing-upon other Defigns, whicll -cre related in the Eghteenth Chapter;- as his Voyk age to Achi7¢, and from thence to ix, W So lca t Madrf, 3nd Bancogli, Cc F{ere is aN fo tome Account oxC what happened to the Como any he left; and allb of Prgnse yeflyp who was

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(433 ) brought and {hewed in .Lotdon, and cf tIle 1* {land Scangis, whcre he was Princc.

In the N-inereenth Chapter he relares his ieavtng Bagcarlx, 4 and his Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, and what h.> there obServed re{narkabl¢. And in the Twentieth is- an Account of his Voy age thence for Exgl4ad > after he has DeCXrioed the Hetteatvts ar tHatvns of the Cape; and by the wav tlle IIland of St. Helend, nowt Peoplcd by the e

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-lI.efXgBotantsMw. Phytogrvtbe pees

tianx, Oromicx , kc F>l L* Edit >696s

HIS Excelient BeFaniRs DrX Leaxard PAke«

] wet} havtng Wtttf) indeitlgable induRry } ar

the fingle Stock of 11ss o77n

Expence} aAady Pub

lifhed a Stt of Phy£ographick Tabless wthchX w jIle

out flattery may delerve the 1N7ame

of a Perf8r.

mance to th improvement of So great a part of ttle SUns

verfal Hifiory of Naturej as hath not been done bo

the whole Comples of precedent Agess goes on to

oblige the curious World with his Bot^

a¢m. Wherein are contairfd the proper and deiriptite

Names of about Six ThouAnd Plants, a part of his

Srbam Kv"} dige;ed into an Order as well

Alphabetical as Clacal, Five Hundred of them ao

where to be found but in this Work, wllich may very

well ferve inllead of a Pinax, or General fides Plao

rgm. Tb which Seventy Copper Plates} with various

Sculpts of the more rarefi exotick, new Plants areanX

nesed, for tlae fatisfadrson of the loaters of BaSnt

Here it is indeed our Auther Seems to 1eacl us loto the

delights of both the InCesfi and by an artfu3 Aduanbrar

tion entertains the Cllti&LlS )rt with anotller World of

Megetables of rome whereaf we lhall giYt a spe -ctmerwo

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t43S ) There you will find a Genuine figure of Sthe Arabiax-

Thorn from BMajcat, which bears the true GumwSrAbickX and is the Acacia candida of [heophr4fluw, and Amgazlem of Avicenna.

A Tree Sorrel from the Cataries, which is no other than the taagicians Moon*zort of the JraSians in Lobel} 7nd vllich our Autilt3r pronounces the very (anze svith Ribes Jrabxm Raxwolf* fince tilat which Cl. Ags faw found in Dr.Caolmaws Pannier, and propoz'd in his Exotickss fbr the Plant was nothing but an imperfed Branch of Oreta;, or the Achiotl. ftom America.

A wonderfall firange Heath-leaf'd Tetrapetalous prickly Plan- from Magritanta, feveral curious Ma- denhairs, both from Sthiopia and the liland of gamwal SIcca's, Aloes, and WIfxes from the Canaries, Made- raJ}atan s Beggal, Seylon, Xthiopia, Malabar, and Tamvica

A Tree Apocynurn from the CAnaries, called Corxi car by the InhabitantsX whoSe gemellous Pods Rand oppofite X are large. but ffnall at ends turn'd up like a MllRachoe,and Sted c371ir,drscal ; not flat; but defiitute of a filky Down. There's another Apocinum branch^'d from Zirginiv, wheSe very {lender, long, gemellous Pods are joined at oot> t--¢zds, and make OUt a pretty -Figure of a ltringed B;Xv tnat's always bexlt.

Arnaranths from America, Sicily, and lVada ragatan, An odd iort si Aqulfolium from the cana ries; various Trets -¢ro*n Malabar, SfricaJ amd i; mazcv.

The Chtyt;0dvrldr05 At"ericana, or Star apple, the Nafebury Tree; the *Mamee, and Mamee Sappeta, the Spawi« Pear} or Shsell*Pear, tI<e fame w-ith the Ag* nacat ScaZigeri: cuduw fr2>s validos adeo efcit ad cvxtxm, at praprizz mfiracalo p ejas efcacia. The Cacao Tree, r%ltO tostS; the Snaptree of tlle Caaaw

r?es,



( 436) rics, the Arbor triJZiw of Malabar; the CaragnaZtree of New Spain, from whence the Gllm-Caranna, or the iErbor In(aniz Hernasdez, with many more, from Several parts of Africa and the I>dies.

The I)ock ]tafbd Arunz, or greater Dragons of Matthiolgs*, never feen to CalWar Baghixe, who em, psoyted a great part of his liire }r] Botanie, ;whofe Exi- fience \\JaS much doubted by Dodoag. denyed by Lobel inJhis AlverMaria, and plainly affirmed in Ggilandins to be feign'd by tile Senenian, yiet -we have had it both from girgiffta and Surinans; there.'s alro an AriSarum or Fryers CowIe, with the Jeaves of Dra- sc)ntium, that frequently ,rows in fieveral parts of

fo. . .

tXrgtnX4.

A pretty After from :thiofi and a Plant ike the Bears-ear s beRudded with flarry prickles on the upper fide of the divarication of its Leav-es from the fame Place.

A moft accurate cut of a Branch of the CoSee- Tree, with itS Fruit from 4rabia Felixf a Mexicax Bryonie, and a Daifie Flowring Pytethrum frnm the Fortgffate lMlands. The Banguea or True Indiax DreamZ tr, a Carduus and two Carlines, fromthe fert-ile Shoars of §ioXona.

An Aromatick CtoveFree from the Coall of Mala- bar, with Leaf, Flower and Fruit mucil diffiering from the common, whofe tafle and fmell is Jilie tlat of RoSes.

The Cedar of Mourlt Atlas calied Kitra by tlle Ara ivxs, as Goropius intormsf ; The true Thuya 1Gheophra. fti} of w?hosc Wood, tinderthe name of Citra aong the Rvmdns} svere -made thoSe Celebrated TabJes of ine. Itimable value recorded i-n-Plisf3t; a-range Carysphyl- It1s or JuRyflower of a CeleIlial bue, perhaps an Epxden.

dron



( 437 ) dronkind, from the vR Empire of Mcaboty.

A Royal Campanala from the PortY^tate Ig!nls9 with a large open mouth'd Flame-likedepcndent Flowwr Two Platanoide Fig-trees of tlue Papala kind, wu Fruit tsbig as Pompions, from Amerxc4. A deiicate lilichryRon, whofe Flowers Qline like fo many Carbun- cles ; svith various fort of Heath from Etbiopi.

A fingular kind of E"XSmo adht, or a Cognate to our Spindle-Ttee, from Ethiotia; which our lagacious Author makes the Paligruz Zifuata of tbeoShrafluz ; and Thrce other §ts of Euonyrni from the fame Parts.

Very firange Fertls in abundance, from yan¢vica and the CbaribEc I^ands * Wonderful Shrubs, w.th Leaves like thoX of Butchers Broom ; as alfo GeniRa's ftom tbe Capc of Grod Hopc. Cudwweeds, and Wome GraSes from the fame PlaceX asalfofrom Maderatan, Mala bar, and Qiti. The xewXwg, or Golden Coaon GraEs from Krgia ; and a Go«lpiUrn from the lfk of BarSotba, ehat produces a moR white Cotton, -sad as tSne as any Silk.

AVcuriolls Horminum from the Ifle of Gomero. A large Tutfian St. JohnsWwort from the t34xarits, and another with narrow Rofemarylea57es from iap9. A Gnaw phaloide Knapweed from Sitbiopia ; and reveral Jacow bas from tbe fiame place.

A Trifbliate Jafmine from ehe Atadtraw, and two > thers very ditiering from the Kingdom of tCalaSar. A new fort of Lavender from the baries ; and a firange Leucadeadros, or Stlver Tree from Mount AtZ. Some Inlix BoxThorns from Matv^r and MJaterA0patafr. A moR elegant SthtoPic hoary Yarrow,withthe L¢azres of Heath, and a pesrennial large firong Scented Bafllsfrom both the Indies.

The true O"opli rpixofa- of Hoxorzuz lRelli, a kind i I"jube, the Nata PZigrg Atbe;i creditof Prarpe

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( 4d8 Alpinu4; and Sadar Adhal oc Servio. A Seranthes oide Scabious immarcefcible fiom igfrica ; and ano ther (}IQBC heAded oneX from the Oriental Iadzes.

The Tamarisk of Egypr call'd Atle ; -that of Xt2z spial wlsw a prickly roundifll Fruit including a Coft 1)0A1n, no other than tile Frutex cinerireus murcofius Capitis Boa. Spei of Breywia , and that Piluliferous one of JGoanmopat} cReemed by our Author thetrue Aca caiis of DxoJcoriMes and Pa&¢la ; and perlaaps tllat very C>preSswlike Atlas TreeX svhok BraicIles were covertd with a CDobweb La;V7neX obterv'd by SwetoniuJ PaglxtuJ,, whom Pli^p uoes renz;C>ber to have ften a Confu]; and was the fir Ronwaa Cbeneral that paIEbd Come Msiles b^ yond the Atlantict Mountain.

The Tithymallls aphyllus, or naked TreeZSpurge, svhich our Author makes the &me with FelCel of Alwi n=, and gyptia Long Pepper of ZegitgS. The Aizoide Tithy-mal, and true. Euphorbium of the Caaa-

riesX with a liveIy Figure of the Vanillia's) tslaich os reh growr upon ghe PanaromaX or yamaiaa Pepper up on that tilandO

I3ut we Wna!] hre prefent the Reader uZitha more articu]ar accaunt at iargeX of a very confxderable Plant

ZVI1ICS OUr AUEXCr C&1lS BY the Name of LNympbza glan difeX a Iffkiz paludibus g-audess> Sc. xvhich is the true :Faba EPf$?J and Colocafia of the 24ncients i a P]ant that has Jain in darkneEs p.erlzaps for above Two lth;)uE Hand YearsX ever fince-te ti¢me of old Herodatgs; WI1O, RS baze have conceitJed, gave the firft occafion of tts being milaken^ srhicEl has been derived even to our own Fimes;. inaf¢much as many famous Bota£zifis of the.e 3atter Centuries, fuSpeded Antxquity to have beta Jeceiuul in the FIiRoJ y of this Bean; and fome uJere to

boid to aff&rts the Ancients were ibulous ln their Ac- c:S3unts.of it. Th;3 lSeSU.07rig, Slwiag, camerari>

Daleshamwea



( 439 ) Daleahampe, -and cZgm, concluded, that-thesPlant wnich -the JEg9tiaws call Culcas, Whfch is the Arum Ggyptixnt in PlinSy, muft needs be the Faba eyptia of pxalcorll and theophr. Hosstever, tbis did noc anfwZer their Defcription, fince theycould notwcogeive any Plawnt within the Ltne of- their Knowledge; to make la ntar an approach to it; both from the Aflinirv and found of i ts Name in Colocafia ) as alSo, the ancient uSe of- feeding upon its Root, continued among thofe Nations of eftX Syrias Arabia and 24trzca; tirne immemorial, where, 'lis <aid) this Faba atWo was in uSe: But the. Fruxt or Nuts was their Food, and rAQt theRoots s the Teeth - of Time having inverted both Name and Ule.

NowthisHynpheaglandifera of our Anthor does exadly anEwer a11 the Nates of the fitR Deiriber, I mean theopbrv/?uz ; and proves, that he gave a ratio- nal and true Account ofthis Plant, contrary to the fiu- ttinions of Modern Botanills: Dxof orides inde£d gves alike aCCQURt almoR in totidem verbu, and P Hup poSed to have borrowed from both, though Iae never t}ames th latter, mult be alike congruou§ tn his Ac- CC,t

LluL here lMtatthiollz uZas indated to blanze, uvtns Je

tiocr then be thought ignorant of fv celebrated a Plar as this ggyptian Bean (which otherw7iSe he does xxtetl enougll dsSinguifh from £t1e Arutnof thatCountiev) he propofed eo the Worid a S12 and fidituotilv iswunu accomtnod-ted to ehe D$Scrpt;on frc)a} Iats ovl/n tmagi aation and Farlcy) butthath lui@tXfy fail'd in the fira dure of itsJ+Fru-it, not conSidering Iotv littles it refemb- led a Honeyomb. Wsilandins will ha-ve ; ttlat h3^J

he there ptopos'd, wtas a kind of Arum, tisargrovs frequent)y in many parts of ltaly; tasugt> as Igira Self ffi(m3Ss Od:vardg hew'd ir him at Ereat > wX

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