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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 92

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t would ne-j ver be done, llie was lo long, and yet a great part of her cut off, andcarried away. 1 meafured the diameter ot her ftem, and found it to be25 inches. Now if we goby the rule ofThfee, and (ay 5if 16 inches diametermake 200 foot high , what Ui ill 2 5 inches? And by this… … long. So then, by the fane Rule ? If 200 foot high bear a branch of25 foot long, what fhall a Tree of 312 foot high do? And I fee bythe lame Rule, it appears to be 39 foot long. And one of thefe trees,after fhe comes to bear fruit, will have no iels than 20 branches atonce, fbut many more in her…

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