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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	fruit_n	tree_n	1,451	5	8.5127	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48447	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 ... / by Richard Ligon, Gent.	Ligon, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2075; ESTC R5114	151,046	156

made of a round form above three foot and a halfe diameter Some trees have two some three of these spurrs This tree has commonly a double top one side being somewhat higher then the other The fruit is like none of the rest 't is of a stammell colour and has neither skin nor stone but it is more like a Cancre then a Fruit and is accounted unwholsom and therefore no man tastes it 't is I believe the seed of the tree for we see none other The leaves of this tree grow of such a height as till they fall down we can give no judgment of them The timber of of this tree is rank'd amongst the fourth sort three being better then it I have seen the bodies of these trees neer sixty foot high # The Bully tree is lesse then the Mastick and bears a fruit like a Bullis in England her body streight and well shap't her branches proportionable her timber excellent and lasting # Redwood is a handsome tree but not so loftie as the Mastick excellent timber to work for it is not so hard as some others which is the cause they seldome break their tooles in working it and that is the reason the work-men commend it above others 'T is a midling tree for sise the body about two foot and a halfe diameter # This is accounted as good as the Red-wood in all respects and is a strong and lasting timber good for building and for all uses within doors # Iron wood is called so for the extream hardnesse and with that hardnesse it has such a heavinesse as they seldome use it in building besides the workmen complain that it breaks all their tools 'T is good for any use without doores for neither Sun nor rain can any waies mollifie it 'T is much used for Coggs to the Rollers # Lignum vitae they use now and then for the same purpose when the other is away but having no bowling in that Country little is used They send it commonly for England where we employ it to severall uses as for making Bowles Cabinets Tables and Tablemen # The Locust is a tree not unfitly to be resembled to a Tuscan Pillar plain massie and rurall like a well lim'd labourer for the burden it bears being heavy and ponderous ought to have a body proportionably built to bear so great a weight That rare Architect Vitruvius taking a pattern from Trees to make his most exact Pillars rejects the wreathed vined and figured Columnes and that Columna Atticurges mentioned by himselfe to have been a squared Pillar and those that are swell'd in the middle as if sick of a Tympany or Dropsie and chuses rather the straightest most exact and best sis'd to bear the burthen that lies on them So looking on these trees and finding them so exactly to answer in proportion to the Tuscan Pillars I could not but make the resemblance the other way For Pillars cannot be more like Trees then these Trees are like Tuscan Pillars as he describes them I have seen a Locust and not one but many that hath been four foot diameter in the body neer the root and for fifty foot high has lessened so proportionably as if it had taken pattern by the antient Remainders which Philander was so precise in measuring which is a third part of the whole shaft upward and is accounted as the most gracefull diminution The head to this body is so proportionable as you cannot say 't is too heavy or too leight the branches large the sprigs leaves and nuts so thick as to stop all eye-sight from passing through and so eeven at top as you would think you might walk upon it and not sink in The Nuts are for the most part three inches and a halfe long and about two inches broad and somewhat more then an inch thick the shell somewhat thicker then a halfe crown piece of a russet Umbre or hair colour the leaves bigger than those that grow upon the Ash in England I shall not mention the timber having given it in my Buildings The Kernells are three or four in every nut and between those a kinde of light pulpie substance such as is in a Hazle-nut before the kernell be grown to the full bignesse In times of great famine there the poor people have eaten them for sustenance But of all tastes I do not like them # Another Locust there is which they call the bastard-Locust This lookes fair but will not last There is a tree called the Palmeto growing neer the Sea-coast which being a sandy light ground does not afford that substance of mould to make a large tree nor shall you finde in that low part of the Iland any considerable trees fit for building which is a main want and hinderance to them that would build there for there is no means to transport any from the high lands by reason of the unpassableness of the wayes the body of this tree I have seen about 45 or 50 foot high the Diameter seldome above 15 or 16 inches the rind of a pure ash colour full of wrinkles the leaves about two foot and a halfe long in bunches just as if you took twenty large flaggs with their flat sides together and tied them at the broader ends With these bunches they thatch houses laying every bunch by himselfe on the lathes somewhat to overhang one another as tiles do This is a very close kind of thatch keeps dry and is very lasting and looking up to them on the inside of the room they are the prettiest becomming figures that I have seen of that kind these leaves grow out no where but at the tops of the trees # Another kind of Palmeto there is which as it has an addition to the name has likewise an addition to the nature for I beleive there is not a more Royall or Magnificent tree growing on the earth for beauty and largeness not to be paralell'd and excels so abundantly in those two properties and perfections all the rest as if you had ever seen her you could not chuse but fall in love with her I 'm sure I was extreamly much and upon good and Antique Authority For if Xerxes strange Lydian love the Plantane tree was lov'd for her age why may not I love this for her largeness I beleive there are more women lov'd for their largeness then their age if they have beauty for an addition as this has and therefore I am resolv'd in that poynt to go along with the multitude who run very much that way but how to set her out in her true shape and colour without a Pencill would aske a better Pen then mine yet I will deliver her dimensions as neer truth as I can and for her beauty much will arise out of that But first I will beg leave of you to shew her in her Infancy which is about tenne or twelve years old at which time she is about