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Dr. Solander relates that “ the tree which produces the Winter’s 
‘** Bark was utterly unknown to the Europeans till the return of 
“* Captain John Winter, who, in the year 1577, failed with Sir 
“« Francis Drake, as commander of a fhip called the Elizabeth, 
“ deftined for the South Seas; but immediately after they had got 
“ through the Streights of Magellan, Captain Winter, on the 8th 
“ of October, was obliged, by ftrefs of weather, to part company, 
* and to go back again into the Streights, from whence he returned 
“ into England in June 1579, and brought with him feveral pieces 
“* of this aromatic bark, which Clufius called after him Cortex Win- 
“* teranus. Several authors have mentioned it fince in their botanical 
“‘ works ; but all they have faid has been copied from Clufius. No | 
“* more was heard of this bark till the Dutch Fleet, under Admiral 
* ‘Van Nort, returned from the Streights of Magellan, in the year 
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“1600. Afterwards all the navigators who pafied through the. . ~ P 
“ Streights of Magellan took notice of the tree, on account of the ~ 
“* ufefulnefs of its bark: but none furnifhed any defcription that 
“ could make it botanically known before Mr. George Handafyd 
“ came back from the Streights of Magellan in 1691, and brought 
“ with him fome dried fpecimens, which he gave to Sir Hans Sloane, 
“* and are now preferved in the Britith Mufeum. From thefe fpeci-. 
** mens, and the account Mr. Handafyd gave of this tree, Sir Hans 
_ “ Sloane drew up a hiftory, and gave a figure in the Philofophical 
“ Tranfactions. Still the fyftematical botanifts could not give it a 
“ place in their catalogues, being unacquainted with its flowers: and 
© fruit.” However this lofs was fupplied by the induftry of Mr. Wallis, 
Captain of the Dolphin, who returned from the South Seas in 1768, 
bringing with him feveral botanical {pecimens of the Winter’s Bark. 
Tree, one of which came into the poffeflion of Dr. John Fothergill, . 
who caufed an engraving of it to be made by Ehret, which is pub- 
lifhed, together with its botanical defeription written by Dr. Solander, — 
in the fifth volume of the Medical Ob/ervations and Inquiries. From 
the plate here alluded to, the annexed figure is taken. ae 
Though Winter’s Bark has been very generally confounded with 
the canella alba, yet they are well known to be totally different, 
as we have already ftated, when fpeaking of the latter. See Med. 
Bot. p. 320.) - ; 
_ 320) Winter’s 
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