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A* the province of Quito, to w men Tccamcz belongs, is 

 celebrated for producing ihe Peruvian Bark. I confefs 1 

 was uncommonly anxious lo fee a tree fo jullly valuable 

 for it-s virion* medicinal virtues. But the (bn commonly 

 nftd in Europe grew more in the interior pans of the 

 country than the places 1 vifitcd ; and my attention was 

 called to a new fpedea, which 1 WW informed had been 

 found fingularly efficacious by the medical gentlemen in 

 South America- As the mailer of the lliip who gave mc 

 the intdllgea e, and who traded In it. was unfortunately 

 to fail the next morning, he firrt vco' obligingly agreed 

 with an Indian to sake and (hew mt the tree, andat the 

 lame time Cooke to the Governor in my favour, who 

 kindly promiled to mpply me wnh a fmall quantity of 

 its beft kind— a promifc he afterwards very generoufly 

 performed. 



That attention which wMune f the llate of our fick pre- 

 vcnteilmc fmm many enquiries that othcrwile might have 

 ■ been made on the fuhject : but from the li mitcd op|»ort uni- 

 ties 1 had ofmakingobfenations,Tctarne*Bark fecmsto 

 be all of one fpecies, as the trees 1 examined wen of the 

 fame kind, and the fincnefs of their lark was eft imatcd by 

 the age of the tree- Young trees of two years old were 

 mac h valued, their Bark being tliin. brittle, imman and 

 artrliigcnt. 



