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it is of two ferts, (1 fuppofe he meaneth for two ufes), the one to bear fruit,. the, 
> _ other to extract the iquor which iffues therefrom, when the branches are cut, or when 
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it is bored, and received into fome things tyed thereunto for-that purpofe, which li- 
quor they call in their language, fura; and it fheweth like unto troubled wine, but 
- in tafte like new fweet wine, which being boiled they call orraque ; and being diftilled 
_ it yieldeth a fpirit like unto our agua vite, and it is ufed for the fame purpofes as we 
do ours, and will burn like it: they call it fu/a, and being fet in the Sun it will be: 
come good vinegar, and that which runneth laft, being fet in the Sun to grow hardy 
or boiled to hardnefs, will become fugar, which they call jagra. Of the inner kernel 
while it is frefh, they make bread; the frefher the nuts are, the {weeter is the meat 
thereof. ; 
GovERNMENT AND Virtugs. This is a folar plant; the fruit or kernel of the 
cokar-nut doth nourifh very much, and-is good for lean bodies; they increafe the © 
natural feed, and ftir up the appetite to venery, and are good to molify the hoarfenefs. 
of the throat and voice. is ’ 
GEC ORPREE 
THIS is reported to be the berries of certain fhrubs or bufhes growing in Arabia 
and from thence into Turkey, and other parts. It is faid of itfelf to be infipid, hav- 
ing neither fcent nor tafte ; but being pounded and baked, as they do prepare it to 
make the coffee-liquor with, it then ftinks moft loathfomely, which is an argument 
of fome Saturnine quality in it: the propugners for this filthy drink affirm, it cauf- 
eth watchfulnefs ; (fo doth the ftinking hemlock and henbane in their firft operation 
: 
if unhappily taken into the body, but their worfe effects foon follow) they alfo fay it 
makes them fober when they are drunk ; yet they would be always accounted fober 
perfons, or at leaft think themfelves. fo when they can but once fit down i ina coffee- 
9 houfe; certainly if there had been any worth in it, fome of the antient Arabian phy- 
ficians, or others near thofe parts; would have recorded i it; but there is no mention 
made of. any medicinal ufe thereof, by any author, either antient or modern ; neither 
can it be indued with any fuch properties as the indulgers of it feed'their fancy with 5 
but this I may truly fay of it, Quad Anglorum corpora, que bic liquori tantopere indulgent 
wa te 
“* $4 Barbarorum naturam mn degener afe Vidette Se ee ce t ; 
ae eR E SSS Ff RoW Eee t ews ae ve 
Sa IT hath no other name in n Englith, “but this tree is called  Cupreffs 
tin; and. the nuts or fruit thereof, Nuces. Cupreffi : in Englifh, cyprelS-nuts. 2 é 
| Drscairtion. The cyprefs-tree hath a thick, ftraight, long ftem 5 upon W ich 
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