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things are wholy out of my way to describe, nor will this be of any loss sence not only Plants but everything that can be of use to the Learn'd World will be very accuratly described by Mr Banks and Dr Solander. The Land naturly produces hardly any thing fit for man to eat and the Natives know nothing of Cultivation. There are indeed growing ^wild in the wood a few sorts of fruits / the most of them unknown to us / which when ripe do not eat a miss, one sort especially, which we call'd Apples, being about the size of a Crab-Apple; it is black and pulpy when ripe and tastes like a Damson, it hath a large hard stone or kernel and grows on Trees or Shrubs
In the Northern parts of the Country as about Endeavour River, and probably in many other places, the Boggy or watery Lands produce Ta^a or Cocos which when properly cultivated are very good roots, without which they are hardly eatable, the tops however make very good greens —
Land Animals are scarce, as so far as we
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© Transcribed from National Library of Australia Manuscript 1 page 294, 2004
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