are brought from the Weft Indias. Fol.48. 
Mountaines growing full ofthem, and they caſte fooꝛth a 
moſt ſwertſme l, ſo that at the beginning when they ſaw thé 
lirſt, they thought that they had bene trees of Cinamon, 
and in part they were nat deceived, foz that the rinde of this 
tree hath as ſ werte a ſmell as the Cinamon hath, and doth 
imitate it in colour and ſharpnes of taſte and pleaſantneſſe I he Saſa- 
of ſmel· and ſo the water that is made of it, is of moſt werte t a £004 
ſmell andtaſte, as the Cinamon is, and pꝛocureth the fame be Sina. 
woꝛke s and e ffedes as Cinamon doth. 5 on. ö 
The tree groweth in ſome partes of the Floꝛida, and not 
in others, toꝛ that it is in the poꝛte of Saint Elen, and in the 
port of Saint Mathew, and not in any other partes: but 
when the Sculdiers did ware ficke , in places where this 
tree grew not, either thep carried them to bee healed to the 
ſayde places, 0; they ſent them the Trees, oꝛ their Rootes 
chieflꝑ, and there with did heale them. The beſt of the tres 
isthe rote t after them the bowes, and nexts the tree, and Th j 
the bett of all is the rindes Che contplecion and tempera-. . 
ture of the trer and of his bowes is hot z dꝛie in the ſeconde ere 
degrer the rinde is fomwhat moe hot ther the reft wr that 5, f 
it entrethints the thirde degree, ol heats and dꝛieth, and 
this is manifeſtiꝑ ſene in the water, and fo they that hall 
neede of it muſt procure to haue the rootes oꝛ bowes, which 
haue the rinde, foz that which is without it, doth not woꝛke 
{9 good cffectes. lait Gd Sin 
The name ofthis Tree as the Indians terme it, is cal The name. 
led Pauame, and the Frenche Men call it S, 
knawe not wherefoꝛe our Spaniardes call it after the 
fame manner ; being taughte by the Frencte Men, al⸗ 
though that fome dos cozrupte it, and call it Sa agia, 
— e- from thence, they of theſe parts 
3: ame ne Gone wk eae 
Type dle of the Rote, 03 of the Mood of this: Tree The v/e by 
the which wee haus treated or beere, is be 9 
S s 5 se 
