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damine was a second time in Loxa, from whence he travelled, 
as we did in the year 1802, to Tomepinda and the Amazon river. 
At that time the first and (what is singular enough) the last 
attempt was made to bring young Cinchona trees alive to Eu- 
rope. After the astronomer had carefully nursed them for eight. 
months during a passage of 1200 leagues, they. were swallowed 
up by a wave, which washed over the boat, near Cape Orange,. 
north of Para. : 
Botanists for a long time were acquainted with only one spe- 
eies of “Cinciaaa which Linnzeus called officinalis, and in the 
n of Which, he united, without knowing it, our C. 
Condaminea and C. cordifolia Mutis; for the specimen sent him. 
from Santa Fe was yellow Cinchona, and totally different from 
that drawn, though imperfectly, by La Condamine. At last Jac- 
quin’s voyage made us acquainted with another species, viz. the 
C. caribaea. The West India Islands, the South Seas, even the 
East Indies, offered from time to time more species of Cinchona 
to the traveller, but the most efficacious and the most remark- 
able < ones of the continent of South America: remained longest 
‘From 1638 to 1776 no other Cinchona bark was met with in com- 
- merce, except that of the corregiment of Loxa and its neigh- 
bourhood. La Condamine makes mention of the bark from 
Riobamba and Cuenca in the province of Quito, as also of that 
from Ayavanca and Jaen de Bracamoros.. But the bark from 
the interior of Peru (around Huanuca, and in the. province La 
Paz) or even the bark from the Sone of New Granada was 
eery unknown to him. 
~ They did. not suppose it possible for Peackona trees to exist 
' north of the Equator, and consequently in our hemisphere, till 
a fortunate accident led a man, who had a long time lived in 
