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The Natural Hiftory of JAMAICA. 
Middleton ap. Purchas, lib. 6.¢.10. p. 1246. tells us it was taken in a 
Ship about Cape St.- Azthony. 7 ; 
There is a Wood called Logwood, or Campechio, it is cheap and yield- 
eth a glorious blue, but our Workmen cannot make it fure, This 
Wood you muft take with you, and fee whither the Silk-Dyers, or 
Wool-Dyers in Turkey can doit; with this you may enrich your felf 
very much, and therefore it is to be endeavour’d earneftly by you. 
It may bring dowa the Price of Woad and of Ansle. Taken out of the 
Remembrances for Mr. S. from Mr. Rich, Hak/. for a principal Factor 
at Conftantinople, for the Profit of the Commonweal. 
Dampier, ¢.4. p.found this Wood inthe Bay of Honduras. 
The chiefeft Merchandize which they lade there in {mall Frigates, is 
a certain Wood called Campeche (wherewith they ufe to dye) Chilton 
ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 461.at Merida, near Rio Tabafco in Campeche Province. 
Campeche-Wood good to dye withal was taken by William Parker at Sebo 
a Town of three or four hundred Indians, near the Town of Campeche in 
Jacatan, ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 603. 
Logwood was burnt by the E. of Cumberland in Portc-Cavallo ap. Pur- 
chas Vol. 4. p. 1147- 
Pommet is miftaken when he takes this to be the Wood of the Fa- 
maica Pepper-Tree. 
Il. Lignum Infule Bonaire Belgis Stockvifb-hout. Lact. Cat. Fam. p. 213. 
Tab. 231, Fig. 5. Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p. 132. An Corakinum Lignum. 
Herm. par. Bat. pr 2 Erythroxylum Americanum, Glycyrrhiza folio floribus ex 
Luteo c rubro variegatis, filiqua latifima. Commel. Hort. Am/t. p. 203. Red- 
wood, Blood-wood, or Nicaragua-wood of Dampier, c. 5. Le Brefil de Ste. Mar- 
the de Pommet.p. 119. 
Nicaragua-W ood, 
This Wood is almoft as red, and as heavy as the true Brafile; the 
Logs of it are about three Foot long and coniprefs’d, not round, about 
halfa Foot broad, thicker in fome Places than in others, and having Slits 
or Cavities here and there in it, which fometimes go quite thro’, and are 
cover’d with a whitifh, or fometimes brown almoft {mooth Bark. 
It is ufed as the former and is imported in great Quantities to Jamaica 
from Nicaragua, Sta. Martha, &c. 
It grows about/Vicoja in the South-Seas, from whence it is carry’d by the 
Lake of Nicaragua to the North-Sea. 
IIl, Pfeudo-fantalum croceum. Cat. Fam. p. 213. Tab. 132. Fig. 3, 4. 
Ray. Hift. Vol. 3. Dendr. p.132. An arbor quadam peregrina, colore inter 
fandalum, rubeuam c Prefilium medio. Cord. obf. fylv. p. 223 ? Brefilet des 
Antilles, de Pommet. p. 119. 
Brafiletto-W ood, 
This Kind of Wood is very like Logwood, only is fmaller and 
generally in longer Pieces, but for Weight, Colour, Ule, cc. comes 
very near it. 
It grows in Famaica, where "tis cut and fent into England for Dyers 
Ufes, in great Plenty every Year. 
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