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Wirer • theft remove thefe pots Into Jlicltef during 

 the winter feaibn, and in the March following put 

 them upon a frelli hot-bed, which will forward the 



feeds in their vegetation. ■ n i j . j 



When the plants are come up, they lliould, by de- 

 ■ erees, be expofed to the open air, in order to inure 

 diem'to our climate •, yet they fhould not be expofed 

 to die open fun at firft, but rather let them have the 

 morning fun only, placing them for fome time where 

 they may be Iheltered from cold winds ; they fliould 

 enjoy a flicker during the two or three firfl winters, 

 after which the Caffioberry Bufli may be planted 

 abroad •, but the South-Sea Thea fliould be kept in 

 pots a year or two longer, being flower of growth, 

 and will therefore not have ftrength enough to refifl: 



.i-.V the cold when young. 



.V; The third fort has been but few vears introduced to 

 the Enelifli gardens ; this rifes eight or ten feet high, 



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i;. fending out branches from the root to the top, gar- 

 ..:niflied with oval, fmooth, entire leaves placed op- 

 ':'. pofite, whofe foot-ftalks are drawn toward each other, 

 '.tr whereby the leaves turn upward -, the flowers come 

 out from the wings of the leaves thinly, they are 



been in ufe time out of mind: we hiay alfo ot3ll-rvv^ 

 that rhe place of its growth in the north, is the fame 

 -latitude as Paraguay is fouth ; fo I fliall beg leave td 

 infert the account given of the Paraguay Tea by 

 Monf. Frezier, who travelled through great part bf 

 New Spain, by cxprcls order of the king of France. 

 In SouthCarolina theplant is called Callena, or South- 

 Sea Tea; the inhabitants of that country do not 

 make fo great ufe of this Tea; as thofe of Viro-'mia 

 and North Carolina; in the lafl of which, the white 

 people have it in as great efteem as the Indians, and 

 make as conftant ufe of it. 



Monfieur Frezier alfo fays, tl^at the Spaniards who 

 live near the gold mines in Peru, are obliged fre-* 

 quently to drink of the herb Paraguay or Mate, to 

 moiften their breafts, without which, they are liable 

 to a fort of fuffocation, from the fti'ong exhalations 

 which are continually coming from t]\e mines. 

 The fame author alfo adds, that the inhabitants of 

 -Lima, during the day-time, make much ufe of the 

 herb Paraguay, which fome call St. Bartholomew's 

 Herb, who, they pretend, came into thofe provinces, 

 where he made it wholefome and beneficial ; whereas. 



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.white, and of the iame Ihape with thofe of the other j before it was venomous ; this, he fays, is brought to 



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Lima dry, and almoft in powder. 



Inftead of drinking the tinfture or infufion apart, as 



^ ^ _ we drink tea, they put the herb into a cup or bowl 



carefully performed will take root in one year; when j made of a calaJDafh tipped with filvcr, which they 

 thev may be cut from the old plant, and put into j call mate ; they add fugar, and pour the hot water 



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forts, but are not fucceeded by berries in England. 

 This is propagated by feeds as the other forts, or by 

 laying down the branches in the fpring* which if 



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upon it, which they drink immediately, without giving 

 it time to infufe, becaufe it turns black as ink. To 



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'fummer, but in autumn they muft be removed into { avoid fwallowing the herb, which fwims at the top, 



fheltcr. I ^^"^^y make ufe of a filver pipe, at the end whereof is 



llie Paraguay, or South-Sea Thea, is accounted by j a bowl full of little holes ; ib that the liquor fucked 



the Indians very wholefome, and (as I have been in- j in at the other end, is dear from the herb. They 



formed by feveral worthy perfons, who refided for j drink round with the fame pipe, pouring hot water 



feveral years in Carolina) is the only phyfic the In- 1 on the fame herb, as it is drunk off. Inftead of a 



tiians ufe; and for which, at certain times of the year, j pipe, which they call bombilla, fome part the herb 

 they come in droves, fome hundred miles diftant, for 

 the leaves of this tree (it not being known to grow 



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with a filver feparator, called apartador, full of little 



holes. The reluftancy which the French have Ihewn 



at any confiderable diftance from the fea;) where | to drink after all forts of people, in a country where 



, tlieir ufual cuftom is, to make a fire upon the ground, J many have the venereal difeafe, has occafioned ihe in- 



and, putting a great kettle of water thereon, they j venting the ufe of little glafs pipes, which they begin 



throw into it a large quantity of thefe leaves, and I to ufe at Lima. This liquor, he fays, in his opinion, 



I immediately fet themfelves round the fire, and, with j is better than tea ; it has a flavour of the herb, which 



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begin drinking j is agreeable enough ; the people of the country are 

 * large draughts, which in a very fliort time vomits 



•' them feverely ; thus they continue drinking and vo- j day, when they rife in the morning. 



?'miting, for the fpace of two or three days, until they j The trade for this herb, (he fays,) is carried on at 



r. tave fufficiently cleanfed themfelves ; then they gather j Santa Fe, whether it is brought up the river of Plate. 



r] every one a bundle of the fhrub to carry away with 

 • i them, and retire to their habitations. But thefe 



There are two forts of it; the one called Yerba de 

 Palos; and the other, which is finer, and of more 



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gentlemen obferved fomething very extraordinary in j virtue, Yerba de Camini.; the laft is brought from 

 the operation of this plant, which was, that in vo- 



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miting it gave them no uneafinefs, or pain, but 

 came away in a full ftream from their mouths, with- 



■ ^^ out fo much as declining their heads, or the leaft 



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'•' 1. This plant is generally fuppofed to be the fame as 



■ - ;^-'that which grows in Paraguay, where the jefuits of 

 • ' iiNthat country make a great revenue of the leaves, 



: ' which they export to feveral other countries, where 



"'■it is infufed and drank like tea; indeed, there are 



U fome perfons who doubt- its being the fame ; which 



'•^ will be pretty difficult to determine, fince there is 



' vAo little converfe between the inhabitants of Paraguay 



* rand thofe in Europe; and all the leaves of that tea, 



^.' which have been brought to Europe, have been ge- 



■"- 'nerally fo broken and defaced, as to render it almoft 



impolTible to know their true figure ; however, from 



-'fome of the faireft leaves, which were picked out of 



' ■' the Paraguay Tea by a perfon of flcill, who compared 



* them with thofe of the Yapon, he had great reafon 



to believe they were the fame ; and as the virtues 



-■' attributed to the Yapon are nearly, if not abfolutely, 



' '. the fame with thofe of the Paraguay, the Indians of 



" thefe nortKern parts of America making the fame ufe 



of it as the inhabitants of the fouth parts of America 



do, viz. to reftore loft appetites, and they fay it gives 



tl\em courage and agility, for which pur|)ofes it has 



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the lands belonging to the jefuits. The great con- 

 fumption of it is between La Paz and Cufco, where it 

 is worth half as much more as the other, which is 

 fent from Potofi to La Paz, There come yearly from 

 Paraguay into Peru about fifty thoufand arrovas, 

 twelve thoufand hundred weight of both forts, where- 

 of at leaft one third is of the Camini, without reck-- 

 oning twenty-five thoufand arrovas of that of Palos 

 for Chili. They pay for each parcel, containing fix 

 or feven arrovas, four royals for the duty called al- 

 cavala (being a rate upon all goods fold;) which, 

 with the charge of carriage, being above fix hundred 

 leagues, doubles the firft prices, which is about two 

 pieces of eight ; fo that at Potofi it comes to about 

 five pieces of eight the arrova. The carriage is com- 

 monly by carts, which carry an hundred and fifty 

 arrovas from Santa Fe to Jujuy, the laft town of the 

 province of Tucuman ; and from thence to Potofi, 

 which is an hundred leagues farther, it is carried on 



mules. 



What this curious author has obferved, on there being 

 two forts of this lierb, may very well agree with the 

 two laft forts mentioned, fince botli of them are ge- 

 nerally fuppofed to agree in their qualities, though 

 one is much preferable to the other; therefore I 

 imagine the Yerba de Camini, is what v/e call Para- 

 guay or South-Sea Thea ; and Yerba de Palos to be 



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