arc qnicklv made, by steeping logs and stripping off the bark; used for conveying 

 goods in the Goa country. 



Jute paper, excellent and recently |)reparcd from old trunny bags ; from the 

 corchorus capsularis. A manufacturer of the linost pocket-handkerchiefs has 

 discovered in the fibre of the despised gunny-bag, a material of immense value — 

 you see the great fineness of the handkerchiefs. — Tea family. Here is "the Old 

 ]S[an's Eyebrow Tea ;" it is done up, as you see, in short twisted sticks, and per- 

 haps bears allusion to the legend of some Chinese saint tearing off his eyebrows 

 and throwing them on the ground, where they sprouted into tea-plants ; repre- 

 sentations of this wonderful transformation yon see on those Chinese screens! — 

 Order, aurantiaca\ orange family. They are looked upon as the golden fruits of 

 the Ilcsperides, whence Jussieu called this family Hesperidea?. Here are all the 

 oils of the family, and the toothpicks and walking-canes so much esteemed, made 

 from the wood in Madeira and Rio Janeiro. — Product of the butter or tallow- 

 tree, pentadcsma butyracea ; a yellow fatty sul)stancc. — You see all the products 

 of the coca-tree, used extensively by the laboring classes, especially the miners 

 of Peru, for its remarkable powers in stimulating the nervous system ; in this 

 respect, resembling opium. — And here among the maple sugars, &c., is an Ame- 

 rican clothes peg ! made of maple-wood (an article still a great curiosity with 

 many English people from its strong contrast to their clumsy peg made in three 

 pieces and bound with tin, which rusts, and iron-moulds the clothes!). — Look at 

 the various products of mahogany ! A single log has been sold for fifteen hun- 

 dred dollars. — Zante currants ; they are a grape of the vitis vinifera, and originally 

 from Corinth. 



So we proceed, talk succeeding talk, and every word having its meaning. The 

 order geraniacete, Cranesbill family. You know the geraniums and pelargoniums, 

 but do you know that one species, the spinosum, is so resinous that the dead stems 

 become masses of resin in the sands of South Africa, retaining their form, and 

 they burn like a torch, giving out a most agreeable odor ? — Here you see the large 

 cotyledons of simaba cedron, from New Granada, where it is considered to super- 

 sede the sulphate of quinine. — The wood and jujubes of zizyphus vulgaris. Z. 

 spina Christi is considered by some to be the thorn with which our Saviour was 

 crowned. — Pease earth-nuts; tubers of lathyrus tuberosus, much eaten in Ger- 

 many during the period of the potato panic. — Flower buds of sophora japonica, 

 much used as a dye in China and Japan. — Mimosea?; ordeal, or red water-tree 

 bark. The red juice is given in large draughts to those accused of crime, and 

 those who can withstand the ordeal, are innocent, but the priests know how to 

 mix it to kill or not! — Mangrove family; the branches send down aerial roots; 

 the seed germinates while still attached to the parent, and falls down a young 

 plant. — Monkey-pot family ; the lidless capsule is used for catching monkeys. 

 Sugar is put in the small opening which enlarges within, so that when the animal 

 has grasped the sugar with his paw, he is unable to extract it, and the very heavy 

 seed-vessel acts as a clog to him, from which he cannot disentangle himself. 



