'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎474] (527/562)

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Jack.
Is a large fpreading tree j the bark is brown and rough, the wood of a fine
bright yellow, and takes a good polifh, the leaves are of a deep fhining green.
The flowers grow out of the ftock and large branches on (hort foot-ftalks •
they are white, very flefliy, and fhaped like a tulip. The fruit is lame',
rough, and of an oblong figure, containing three feries of feeds, which are
about the fize of a bergamote pear within thefe, is a large kernel which
fills the Jack to within a third of an inch of its diameter j the coat of this
is what is eaten, and which is extremely fweet and lufcious; it feels in the
mouth like preferved citron, though fomewhat tougher and harder. Some
of thefe capfules weigh more than 20 pounds. The tree grows in every
country in India^ but the Butch are more fond of the fruit than any other
of the Europeans.
C hulta.
An elegant flower tree. It grows near Surman's bridge in Bengal^ and has
been fully defcribed in p. 184.
W hite C hampowe.
This is a fmall tree, but it fpreads much ; the flowers appear firfl: round
the ends of the branches, and are of the fhape and fmell of a jonquil, but of
a white colour; after the flower, the leaves come out in the fame manner
round the ends of the branches, but no where elfe, fo that on the outfide,
the tree looks well covered, but if you look from under, it is a ihell:
when the leaves are off it appears like a tree divefted of all its fmall branches,
there being none that are lefs than an inch in diameter, nor are there many
of thefe. The wood is fpungy ; the bark fmooth and brown, it fmells very
fweet. This tree grows all over India.
Y ellow C hampowe.
This is the Michilia of Dodor Hill, and by him has been well dcfcribed.
This is the fineft fort of ail, and its flowers perfume the woods.
M ango , vide p. 184.
D olcorunda or C hetha.
1 his grows to 12 and fometimes to 20 feet in height, and is in its growth,
and tne colour ol its bark fomewhat like our hazels the leaves are of a
dirty green above, and of a whitifh colour below, highly ribbed', and to the
touch are rough and harfh. I have never feen the flower, but the fruit is
a long flat pod containing fome feeds. In dry weather, the le&ves double,
when they appear oval with one fide ftrait. The natives fmoke the leaves
over a lamp, and apply them to the eyes in order to remove a dulnefs of the
light occafioned by a fever, &c. They alfo rowl their Charcots in them (or
Segars as they are called in the V/ejt Indies),
B e dam.