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Some account of New Holland.

in the West Indies Indian Kale were in tolerable plenty as was also a sort of Purslane  the other plants we eat were a kind of Beans very bad a kind of Parsley & a plant something resembling spinage which two last grew only to the Southward  I shall give their botanical names as I beleive none some of them were never eat by Europeans before  first Indian Kale (Arum Esculentum)  Red flowerd purslane (Sesuvium Portulacastrum) Beans (Glycine speciosa) Parsley Apium    ) Spinage (Tetragonia cornuta)  fruits we had still fewer  to the NorthSouthward was one something resembling a heart cherry only the stone was soft (Eugenia       which had nothing but a light acid to recommend it  to the Northward again a kind of Figs growing from the stalk of a tree  very indifferent (Ficus caudiciflora)  a fruit we calld Plumbs like them in Colour but flat like a little cheese      and another much like a damson both in appearance & taste  both these last however were so full of a large stone that eating them was but an unprofitable business  Wild Plantanes we had also but so full of seeds that they had little or no pulp.
[Margin note] Timber
For the article of timber there is certainly no want of trees of more than midling size & some in the valleys very large  but all of a very hard nature  our carpenters

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