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fome particulars, which, during the flrort flay of three days, 

 did not fall within my own obfervation. He informed me, that 

 a fhrub is common here, agreeing exacftly with the defcrip- 

 lion given by Tourncfort and Linnsus, of the tea JJjnib, as 

 growing in China and Japan. It is reckoned a weed, and 

 he roots out thoufands of them every year, from his vine- 

 yards. The Spaniards, however, of the ifland, fometimes 

 life it as tea, and afcribe to it all the qualities of that im- 

 ported from China. They alfo give it tlie name of tea ; but 

 what is remarkable, they fay it was found here when the 

 iflands were firfl difcovered. 



Another botanical curiolity, mentioned by him, is what 

 they call the Impregnated lemon*. It is a perfeft and diftinft 

 lemon, inclofed within another, differing from the outer 

 one only in being a little more globular. The leaves of the 

 tree that produces this fort, are much longer than thofe of 

 the common one; and it was reprefented to me as being 

 crooked, and not equal in beauty. 



From him I learnt alfo, that a certain fort of grape grow- 

 ing here, is reckoned an excellent remedy in phthificat 

 complaints. And the air and climate, in general, are re- 

 markably healthful, and particularly adapted to give relief 

 in fuch difeafes. This he endeavoured to account for, by 

 its being always in one*s power to procure a different tem- 

 perature of the air, by refiding at different heights in the 

 ifland ; and he expreffed his furprize that the Englifh phy- 

 ficians fhould never have thought of fending their con- 

 fumptive patients to Teneriffe, inflead of Nice or Liibon. 



* The Writer of the Relation of Teneriffe, in Sprat's Hijlory, p. 207, takes notice 

 ef this lemon as produced here, and calls it Pregnada,. Probably, emprennada^ the Spa- 

 nilh word for htipregnatsd, is the name it goes by, 



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