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Fig. 1, KLAiN, reprefents this frnall plant taken cut of tiic 

 Nutmeg, as nearly as the Ihnner was able to draw it from tlie naked 

 eye; and though it fcenis to be compored of many leaves, yet, in 

 my judgment, there are but two ; but I could not examine that matter 

 very accurately, becaufe in the attempt, the plant was ofien broken. 

 The part in this hgure inarkcd N is th.at, from whence tlie flem and 

 root would grow. 



Moreover, I placed a fmall p'ece of the outward part of this leaf 

 before a microfcope, and directed the limner to make a drawing of it 

 with all the veHels in it, as tliey appeared to him. 



Fig. 3, OPORS, reprefents this piece of leaf; OP, is the part 

 which was broken off from the relt of tlie leaf, and O R is the 

 external edge of it. 



In this fmall piece of leaf we not only fee, how the veffels or veins 

 are branchei out into fmaller ramifications, but in many places may 

 plainly befeen, the oily matter or fubllance, which is the fame in 

 nature and colour, as is to be feen in the nut itfelf. And fmce we 

 fee fo man}' branchings of the veins in fo fmall a piece of a leaf, who 

 can tell how many more ramifications there may be in it, entirely 

 cfcaping our fight } 



During the time that I was employed in fearching for the plant 

 in the Nutmeg, I fell into converfation with a friend refpecling tlic 

 tree that bears this fruit, which tree, I was perfuaded, had fome 

 cavity in the middle of it ; this coming to the ears of a certain Pro- 

 fellbr, he fent me two pieces of the root of the Nutmeg tree. 



Upon examining thofe pieces of root, both at the larger and 

 fmaller ends, I was grcatl}^ furprized to find, that this wood is of a 

 remarkably fpongy nature and very porous, though it has not any 

 cavity in it, different from the wood of other trees ; for, froin t])e 

 root, wc mull conchide, that the tree itfelf is of the like formation. 



