Part 7 (2/2)

Where is the Tree found?

In Spain, Italy, France, and many other countries The true cork is the produce of the broad-leaved tree

What are its uses?

Cork is e vessels containing liquids, and, on account of its buoyancy in water, in the construction of life boats It is also used in the reatest quantities are brought from Catalonia, in Spain The uses of Cork ell known to the ancients

To what particular use did the Egyptians put it?

They made coffins of it, lined with a resinous composition, which preserved the bodies of the dead uncorrupted

What is Cochineal?

A drug used by the dyers, for dyeing cri car, and several of the arts

Is it a plant?

No, it is an insect The form of the Cochineal is oval; it is about the size of a ss armed with claws, and a trunk by which it sucks its nourishment

What is its habitation?

It breeds in a fruit rese a pear; the plant which bears it is about five or six feet high; at the top of the fruit grows a red flohich when full blown, falls upon it; the fruit then appears full of little red insects, having very sht?

By spreading a cloth under the plant, and shaking it with poles, till the insects quit it and fly about, which they cannot do many minutes, but soon tumble down dead into the cloth; where they are left till quite dry

Does the insect change its color when it is dead?

When the insect flies, it is red; when it is fallen, black; and when first dried, it is greyish; it afterwards changes to a purplish grey, powdered over with a kind of white dust

Froht?

From the West Indies, Jamaica, Mexico, and other parts of America

What are Cloves?

The dried flower-buds of the Clove Tree, anciently a native of the Moluccas; but afterwards transplanted by the Dutch (who traded in them,) to other islands, particularly that of Ternate It is now found in most of the East Indian Islands