The Natural Hiftory of JAM AYCA., 
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The Sound they make with the Wind gives a differing Note 
totheir Fullnefs at Age. Nieremb. ‘ 2 gee cue 
_ Caflia from Cayro is good; but from Braf/ the beft; one Ounce purg- 
ing more than two of the other. Bod. a Stapel. 
It grows in the Woods of Fava. Bont. 
Caffia with Sugar, Ginger, Ebony, and Liguum Sanitum, was the chief 
Commerce of the Ifland St. Dominique, from whence were fhip’d in the 
Flota, wherein he came, forty eight Quintals. 
This Tree is very ufeful, and was fown by the Apothecaries Seeds, 
only they are deftroy’d by Ants. Lop. de Gom. fol. 29. : 
Caffia cometh from Egypt: The Pulp drying the Seeds make a Noife 
bre the Pod is fhaken. The weightieft, largeftand moifteft Pods are beft, 
Ora. 
Thefe Trees ap. Parchas, lib. 9 cap. 9. p. 1§03. were found by Cairo and 
Fo. des Santos. ib. fol. 9. cap. 1233. p- 1547+ found them on the Lzvata 
étils, Some attribute Fluxes in the Indians to Flefh of Kids feeding 
uponthis Fruic. The Occidental is beft, becaufe frefheft. Avices com- 
mends the Bark of this with Cinamon, and Cafia in retentis Menftruis 
Fragos. 
it keeps two Years: Dort. 
It is very windy and needs Anife, or fome Correctives. 7. B. 
Jt was unknown tothe ancient Latins and Greeks, and brought into Ufe 
by the Arabs. Lon. 
The Flowers are preferv’d for purging. Tertre. 
The Cafia Fiftula of the Greeks is Calf Lignea, and not this of the Aya- 
bians, which was unknown to them. Fach/. p. 131. 
The Cafia from Cairo carry’d to Venice, is fourifh, that from Demiate 
to France, is {weet. Lambert. 
Atuarius Aefcribes it firlt, calling IC xgsha wsrcivd, being known to the 
Arabs firft, Dod. 
It is very good for Difeafes in the Kidneys. Bauh. in Math. 
It may be given in Fevers. Lagd. Manardws {ays the Seeds are purgative, 
but in that was miftaken, Ma/a. 
Some old Phyficians ufe the Bark of this Fruit for the Cafia of the An- 
cients or Cinamon in hard Labour, which is very dangerous. Lac, The 
Pulp helps Mad People to fleep. 2. 
Sanderfon ap. Purchas. lib. g. cap. 16. §.1. pe 1615. takes Notice of this 
Tree in Egypt, and p. 1617, that they Jay the Logs of it at Length for 
ftrengtheaing cheir Walls and Buildings: 
Pyrard tells us that ic grows in Decam, Flowers in September, and is 
ripe in January, when it falls and Cattle eats them, and the Inhabitants 
{cruple eating Mutton or Beef then, becaufe of their being laxative. p. 3. 
» 14: 
‘ poe Tom. 1.p- 288. found it in Siam. 
White in the fifth Voyage to Virginia took fome of it in a Prize near 
Hifpaniola. ) ip we 
Rob. Tomfon ap» Hakl. p. 449. found it in Sto, Domingo. Much of it is 
fent into Spais trom Cuba and Porto Rico. tb. p. 466. Hawks. 
And from the Weft-Indies in the Flota. Philips ap. Haki. p. 3. 
. 486. 
f 78 Anonymus Relator of Cumberlands Voyage, ap. Purchas. Vol.4. p. 1147: 
fays that in famaica two Barks were laden with Hidesand it. 
“Rob. Harcourt ap. Purchas. lib 6. cap. 16. p. 1276, met with it in 
Guiana, 
Caffia 
