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ISIany of thefe particles of Pepper arc tranfparent like glafs, and 

 others of them may be fccn to be compofed of il'dl fmaller particles. 



Having examined the parts of common Pepper, I took fome of 

 that ^vhich is called long Pepper, and bccaufe I believe that many 

 perlbns are unacquainted with this kind of Pepper, I have caufed a 

 drawing to be made of it, which is reprefented at Jig. 2, BC DE, 

 in which B C is the tlalk, and C D E the fruit or Pepper itfelf. 



Upon cutting open this long Pepper, I perceived it was not a 

 fingle feed of Pepper, but what is called a pericarpium, that is, a 

 cafe or flicU containing many feeds, and in this lliell were contained 

 above an hundred fmall grains of Pepper, 



Several of tliefe fmall grains, each of which is contained in ar 

 particular fkin or covering clofely adhering to it, I took out entire, 

 and held them in my mouth, in order that by the moillure the co- 

 verings or Ikins inclofing them might be foftened, and I might the 

 eafier difcover the mealy fubflance of which thefe fmall grains of 

 Pepper are compofed. In doing this I found that the grains, though 

 not broken, excited as flrong a fenfation on my tongue as if they had 

 been pounded Pepper, whence I concluded that the mealy fubllance 

 of thefe grains, which in fize and fliape agreed with our common 

 Pepper, did not excite that fenfation by the acute particles in them, 

 which I have faid are to be difcovered by the micro fcope, but rather 

 by fome faline particles exciting on our tongues that kind of prick- 

 ing which is called heat. 



I therefore took fome of this long Pepper, which I put in clean 

 paper and pounded it on an anvil : I then put it into a new glafs 

 vellel, pouring rain water on it till it was covered to about the third 

 part of an inch ; after this water had flood about two hours I poured 

 it off, but it being evening I let the water ftand all night ; the next 

 morning I faw, in the place where the water was motl evaporated 

 an incredible number of laline particles, many of which Mere almoft 

 twice as long as broad, but one fide always longer than the other, 

 both fides parallel, and the two lliortcr tides Hoped from the 



