... high' degree of perfeftion ; and he has alfo tranfported. thither, cultivated and multiplied the bell kind of the bread. fruit tree. - Wednefday fe'nni4ht a foldier belonging to the Weftminfter militia, at Bexhill, was drummed, igriothin,ioufly, , ...

... Melville, is acandidate to reprefent the county ot . Edinburgh in Parliament, in the room of the LORD ADVOCATE. The bread fruit - tree, which has been introduced into forne of our fettlements in India, - is reported to thrive remarkably well. In the Company's ...

... of ferviee, and that under a very confiderable laving in the public expenditure ! We underfland that the wood of the Bread Fruit Tree is in general ufe in the Itland of Ceylon, and approprited to articles of furniture. When freih, it is of a . beautiful ...

... thumb. Mr. Nelson, the botanist, who accompanied Captain Bligh to the South Seas, for the purpose of conveying the I Bread Fruit Tree to the IVest Indies, when on Van Diemen's Land, found a tree in a thriving state, of the enormous size of 334 feet in ...

... a farm here yesterday, with which I was much delighted. There are several thousand coffee trees in full bearing, the bread- fruit tree, and other West Indian plants; and the soil is apparently fertile. There are 60 people employed on it, whose wages are ...

... crop of barley. The bread fruit tree in the tropics produces so abundant a crop, that three trees are quite sufficient to maintain a man for eight months. The great discoverer Cook says, 6 Whoever has planted ten bread fruit trees, has fulfilled his duty ...