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A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes : illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making ... all cut in copper (1673)

Ligon, Richard · London : Printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker ... and Thomas Guy ... · leaf 90

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n they come tobe purple, they are ripejand in a while fall down, and then the yellowbecomes purple, and the green yellow 5 and fb take their turns, till jthe tree gives over bearing. Thefe fruits we can hardly come bybeing of fo great a height, nor is it any great matter : for the tafte isnot… … of the Ijland of Barbadoes. time, (lieis 80 foot high, and continues that form, without variation^only as fhe growcs older, fo taller and larger, and has alvvayes green^yellow, arid purple fruit, fucceeding one another .j whether there bebloflbmes, I know not, for f never went fo high as to look.…

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