OF HONDURAS.


 CHAP. VI.

Subjects connected with the Natural History cf
 Honduras. Extraordinary advantages that
 might attend many pursuits annexed to cultiva-
 tion again insisted on. Trees and plants, their
 great variety : the uses of several species des-
 cribed.

AN early attention has been directed
towards the probable degree of success
that might attend the culture of most of
the vegetable productions peculiar to tro-
pical situations in the settlement of
Honduras. An outline, or general descrip-
tion of those which at present are most fa-
miliarly known in it having likewise been
given, a farther enumeration of them
cannot be necessary. But previous to
concluding this part of the subject, it
may yet be remarked, that this pros-
pect of advantage is very materially encou-
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