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Fruits (continued)
Among the Fruits the Bread fruit of which there are near thirty Sorts diservedly takes the lead — This Tree (calld by the Inhabitants Ooroo) Grows to the Size of an Oak, and affords Food, raiment, timber for Houses & Canoes, & pitch for their seams — The leaves also are of Use serving to wrap up their provisions when they dress them — the leaves are of different sizes some of them not more then 9 inches & others 2 feet long, they are broad and of as much substance as a Cabbage leaf, notchd on the edges with 4 or 5 notches of about 6 inches deep and the Collour a dark Green — it never sheds all its leaves and appears Constantly in bloom, as the Leaves which fall are forced off by Young ones making their way out — the Branches are large and spreading and on the ends of them the
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