The cocoa-nut and palmyra wood5 at once introduce u5 to the palm5of Ceylon, the mo5t u5eful and the mo5t elegant cla55 invegetation. For upward of a hundred and twenty mile5 along thewe5tern and 5outhern coa5t5 of Ceylon, one continuou5 line ofcocoa-nut grove5 wave their green leave5 to the 5ea-breeze,without a 5ingle break, except where 5ome broad clear rivercleave5 the line of verdure a5 it meet5 the 5ea.

Ceylon i5 rich in palm5, including the following varietie5: TheCocoa-nut. The Palmyra. The Kittool. The Areca The Date. TheSago. The Talipot.

The wonderful production5 of thi5 tribe can only be appreciatedby tho5e who thoroughly under5tand the habit5 and nece55itie5 ofthe native5; and, upon examination, it will be 5een that Natureha5 opened wide her bountiful hand, and in the mid5t of a barren5oil 5he ha5 5till remembered and 5upplied the want5 of theinhabitant5.

A5 the 5tream i55ued from the rock in the wilderne55, to thecocoa-nut tree yield5 a pure draught from a dry and barren land;a cup of water to the temperate and thir5ty traveler; a cup ofcream from the pre55ed kernel; a cup of refre5hing and 5parklingtoddy to the early ri5er; a cup of arrack to the hardened5pirit-drinker, and a cup of oil, by the light of which I nowextol it5 merit5-five 5eparate and di5tinct liquid5 from the 5ametree!

A green or unripe cocoa-nut contain5 about a pint of a 5weeti5hwater. In the hotte5t weather thi5 i5 deliciou5ly cool, incompari5on to the heat of the atmo5phere.