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Identifier: nouveauvoyageau03laba (find matches)
Title: Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amérique ...
Year: 1742 (1740s)
Authors: Labat, Jean-Baptiste, 1663-1738
Subjects: Labat, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738
Publisher: Paris : Ch. J.B. Delespine
Contributing Library: University of Ottawa
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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de cette efpece ùoa. en une Iile Hollandoife près de la côte de Carac, appellée Curaçao ou Curalïb, ou Corolfoi par corruption, & qui en rapportèrent lefpece aux Kles Fran- çoifes, lui ont donné le nom de cette Ifle au lieu du iïen propre > foit quils ne le fçufïent point, foit pour quelquautre raifon qui neft point venue à ma con- noifïance. Lorfquil eft planté feul il vient de lagrandeur & de la grofleur dun poiriermédiocre. Son bois eft blanchâtre > tonécorce grife , mince , unie Ses branches fiui font en grand nombre, droites,ouples 8c ployantes , four garnies demantité de petits feions couverts de:ciiilles qui y (ont attachées deux à deux»ar des queues a(Tez courtes. Les feuil-les ont environ quatre pouces de lon-gueur , fur un pouce & demi à deuxpouces de large en manière dovaleallongée , avec une penre pointe à lex-trémité. Elles font dun verd un peubiun 9 affez fortes, roides & caftantes, &: dune 1t Fe Tom,.j.z>ay. z88.
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Françoifès de l Amérique. 289 u dune bonne épaifTeur. Cec arbre fleurit i6j<j<ôc porte du fruit deux fois Tannée, iesfleurs lont de pedts boutons qui en s e-panoiiifïanc deviennent un peu rouges.Le fruit qui leur fuccéde étant dans faparfaire maturité, a depuis quatre jus-quà (îx pouces de diamètre, & huit àneuf pouces de hauteur; on en trouvequi pefent lept à huit livres. Sa figureapproche toujours de celle dun cœur unpeu mal formé. Il eft couverc dune écor-ce épaifle comme une pièce de trentefols, dun beau verd gai, marquée &partagée comme en écailles, garnies depetites élévations en forme de pointesémou/ïées & trop tendres pour faire dumal. On connoît que le fruit eft mûr 5quand ces petites pointes commencent ànoircir, &c que la queue qui lattache àlarbre qui a pour lordinaire trois à qua-tre pouces de long & de lagrofTeur duntuyau de plume à écrire , change de cou-leur &c fe flétrit *, pour lors u on ne lecueille pa

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  • bookcentury:1700
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  • bookpublisher:Paris___Ch__J_B__Delespine
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  • bookleafnumber:334
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