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READING LESSONS. 2-31
AmrIN1ISTER, v., contribute, dispense. F. administrer, om minister, L., a servant, an assistant, which is om minor, less, as ma,gister, master, om m i., more.
For "Stupendous," see p. 17; "Specimens," p. 26; '' Asylum," u. 135; "Inhabitants," p. 89; "Climate," p. 213; "Agreeable," p. 177; "Tropical,'' p. 26; "Egypt," p. 220; "Arabia and Persia," pp. 104, 195; " edicinal," p. 35; "Fibres,'' p. 137; and "Appendages," p. 51.
1. TREES, those stupendous specimens of crea ive
art, spread not their wide-extended roots nor lift their
lofty heads in vain. Beneath their cooling shades _our ocks and herds nd a com rtable asylum from the scorching rays of the summer sun. The wild stragglers of the rest have a place of rest among their woods and thickets; whilst the athery song­ sters of the grove build their little dwellings in se­ curity, and sing among their branches; "as r the stork, the r-trees are her house." But in what a variety of respects, besides a ording the inhabitants of warm climates an agreeable shelter from the mid­ day heat, do those, and the di erent members of the shrubby race, yield their services, or are made sub­
servient to the use of man !
2. The bread ruit-tree of the Paci c Ocean, the date alms which wave along the coasts of the fedi­ terranean, the calabash of the West Indies, and cocoa­ n t-tree of the East Indies, the cabbage-tree of East Florida, and the magney or mati-tree of New Spain, and the accommodating pa aw, which grows in tropical climates, both of the western and eastern world, are each rendered remarkable r the number of other use l properties they possess, besides con­
tributing their services, in the way of most suitable o<l, to the inhabitants of those climes, in which they severally grow. During a considerable portion of the year, the bread- uit-tree a ords the chief suste- nance of the Society-Islanders, it being in season