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boiling water poured upon tliem after they liaye 

 stood a few minutes, fifteen drops of oil of vitriol 

 are to be dropped in upon them^ and Ihree draclims 

 of the finest sugar^ in powder^ is to be added at the 

 same time, then the whole is to be well stirred 

 about and covered up, that it may cool leisurely : 

 when cold it is to be poured clear off, ' It is called 

 tincture of roses ; it is clear, and of a fine red colour. 



It 



d is a powerful as well as a plcasfant remedy 



against 



T^he Rose-Wood Tree. Rhodimn. 



THERE are (wo kinds of wood known under 

 the name of rose-wood^ the one from the East; 



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which, when fresh brought over,, has a very fra- 

 grant smell, exceedingly like that of the damask 

 rose, and from the wood is distilled the oil, which 

 is sold under the naD:ie of essence of damask rose; 

 we have no account of the tree which affords this; 

 The other rose-wood- is the produce of Jamaica, 



and has very much of the fragrant sraeli of the 

 eastern kind, hut it is not the same ; the tree which 

 produces this is fully described by that great natu- 

 ralist sir Hans Sloane, in his History of the Island 

 of Jamaica. The tree gro.ws twenty feet or morfe 

 in height, and its trunk is very thick in proportion. 

 The leaves are each composed of three or four pairs 

 of smaller • these stand at a distance from one ano- 

 ther on the common stalk ; the flowers arc little 



and white, and they grow in clusters, so that at a 



distance, tliey look like the hunches ot elder flow- 

 ers. The fruit is a round berry, often each of th^ 

 bigness of a tare. The wood of this tree is lighter, 

 paler coloured, and of a looser grain t]^ an the 



eastern rose-wood. 



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