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A true & exact history of the island of Barbados : illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making ... : all cut in copper (1657)

Ligon, Richard, Ogilby, John, 1600-1676, Moseley, Humphrey, d. 1661 · London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ... · leaf 100

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d when they come tobe purple,they are ripe,andin a while fall down, and then the yellowbecomes purple^and the green yellow j and fo take their turnes, tillthe 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 is… … 1 of the Hand of Barbadoes* time,(he is 80 foot high, and continues that forme, without variation* 1only as (he growes older, fo taller and larger; and has alwaies green,yellow, and purple fruit, fucceeding one another 5 whether there bebloflbmes, I know not, for I never went f© high as to look.…

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