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... Voyage. In the Society Islands. I (Captain Cook) have enquired very carefully into their manner of cultivating the bread-fruit tree at Otaheite ; but was always answered, that they never planted it. This, indeed, must be evident to everyone who will ...
... n from the meich•ents aid planters interested in his.mrjegy's Wet India• poll - 041.)n5, that the introdudion of the bread fruit tree into the ill inds of thole feaai to conititive an article of food, would be of very effenlial herirfit'to the inhabitants ...
... On *surd the Provide.nce are one or two large boxes, and forne other ufefol articles, • made from .the wood of .the Bread Fruit tree. is of a clofe hard grain, much rerembling •anahogany. • •• The St. Vincent's colleetion of plants, which are to be taken ...
... into Falmouth. His Majcfty's Providence, Captain Bligb, lailed from St. Helena December 1 alt for J;unaica, with the Bread Fruit Trees from Otaheite. By the Samuel and Jane, Capt. Hall, arrived Falmouth, from Sierra Leone, after palVage ...
... Government to Captain Illigh. evidently fh ew the 1 beralitv cf the Bridal Nation, as he is direfted to kav e a part of the bread fruit tree plants, at the Mauritius, and Saint Helena, and to diQribute the remainder amonet the Weft India Hands. The Portugueze ...
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... moff valuable prefent that could poffibly be befiowcd on the Windward Jfl.-nids — a number of thriving plants of the Bread-fruit tree- for fhould their growth fucceed, thofe calamities of nature to which the illands are fttbject, can hardly evexoc- caiion ...
... BREAD FRUIT TREE EXPEDITION. Thurfday advices were received by Government, of the fafe arrival of His Majefty’s (hip the Providence, commanded Capt. Bligh, with the Afliftance tender in company, at Kingfton, in the of Jamaica. Thefe two veflels failed ...
... Lawley, Member for Warwickfhire, died on Tueiday night, at his houfe in Cavendifh- Square. Captain Bligh's carrying the Bread fruit Tree to the Well Indies is an important objet---and we cannot with it better than to ith it fuccefs equal to its merit. The ...
... Majefty's fhip Providence, with armed tender, arrived here, the officers and crews in perfect health. The Captain left bread fruit trees at Sc. Vincent's, with feveral other plants; here we received, return, aconfiderable number of curious botanical plants ...
... the fond for finele grains of rice. Captain Bligh,whofometimefincearrived at Spithead from the Sooth Seas, with the bread fruit trees, *tc. could gain no intelligence of the mutineer Chriflian, and his accomplices, who were on board the Bounty. When they ...
... in coufequeuce of her detention. Capt. Bligh, who feme time fince arrived at Spithead from the South Sea*, with the bread-fruit- trees, occ. could gain no intelligence of the muti- neer Chriflian, and his accomplices, who were on board the Bounty. When ...