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 degree », fo ii has been found of moa- c(Tu icy in the cum 

 of intermittent;, : anil hence it U thought U be that w liu h, 

 according to Aimf, the S|«manU called CUcarilla colora- 

 i'.i. Bod VM probably the kind originally brought to Eu- 

 rope, and which proved lit fucceOful m the hands of 

 for it Bjipcu* from the 

 tctiimony of the oldell practitioners, that the link Jint 

 employed here whs of a much deeper colour than the 

 common Bark +. The red Bark, waj firtt imagined by Dr. 

 Saunders J to be that of the trunk of tullgtuuu tin-, the 

 branches or young MM of which yield the pale or com- 

 mon Bark: but this opinion the Doctor lct.ii: 

 to have abandoned; for in *■ HiiiJ edHOO of his pam- 

 phlet on this Hibjccl he fays, " that he haj lately lecn fome 

 cxccediiigl>' good red Bark imported by a Spanilh mer- 

 chant, a ronlidcrable part of which was as fmall as the 

 quilkd Bark in common life. Sec- It was extremely rcfin- 

 ous, and gave evident proofs of its being the quill of the 

 larger red Bark which was in the fame chert." If the pale 

 and red Bark were really the produce of the fame fpceict 

 of Cinchona, the latter differing from the forma only 

 ring greater maturity, we fhoukl find the dcep- 

 nefiof the colour of the pale Bark to concfpn:;il propor- 

 tiouably with its thlcknefi or the fi/.e of the quill, which 

 is certainly not the enfe. The Cinchona caribwa is deferibed 



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