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591.
Some account of St Helena

ashore  a custom from whence all nations have since reapd no small benefit. amongst its native products however Ebony must be recond  tho the trees that produce it are now nearly extinct & no one remembers the time when they were at all plentifull  yet peices of the wood are frequently found in the vallies of a fine black Colour & a hardness almost equal to Iron  these however are almost always so short & so crooked that no use has yet been made of them  Whether the tree is the same as that which produces Ebony on the Isle of Bourbon & its adjacent Islands is impossible to know as the french have not yet publishd any account of it   other species of trees & plants which seem to have been originaly natives of the Island are few in number  insects there are also a few & one species of Snails who inhabit only the tops of the Highest ridges & probably have been there ever since their original creation

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