[ 8 ] 

 pan of then o«n OphlkM, i!k! not endeavour todiftover 

 : it «M long before the 

 dirtinctivc cfaanften, '■ ■ 



dilUnguifiK.il from the fi j Ui iO Ua, want Mended in. If a 



wkdgeof ihc free* the bark of which 



fed the quantity hid not been wanting, or if 



the ttcc from which the imc bark \v» taken had been 



known, we fhould btve been, at Icall in put, better able to 



judge in the mailer. Attempt) have been nuule, cvm till 



the prcu.ni time, to difeova inmr other remedies whirl) 



thb enquiry 



is tii niuili the more ncccilary, lince, accord': 



Coiotaminc's account, puhlilhcd more than half a century 



ago in the Mem. dc 1' Academic des Sciences, for the year 



1738, p. 324 (edit. Amilcnlam), we may (bme lime or 



odStatod totofetbe Peruvian Itatk; thcircc* 



being at thai lime fn much diminiihcd in Hero by frc- 



rtueni decortication, tht> ii t t Tf f** > *i 1 i^T** ***— In rnmn 



cvcnnfmall<]\].in'ir\ <mil<! !i an cl>c obtained fromihem. 



Later experience ha* fhewn ihat thb opinion was not cn- 



■ ..•: foundation. The accouna which 1 have 



been enabled to colled during my rcfldeDc* in Spain, all 



agree in affirming thai ilic tree ll 1 



places who 'I 1:1 the grcatcit almn- 



been dfftovered In any 



other region. OUT for 1* vanlflwd a» to our one ilay lofing 



adrqg. Various botanilUs who inthefc lattti 



time* have travelled in theWefl Indies to invcttigutc the 



natural production* ot 'thai pan of the world, have found 



fetan] 



