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The leaues and nuts arc good to cure the rupture, to take away the Polypus > being an excrelrenr r 



arowinz in the nofe. D ncc ^ 



mowin 

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the fame 



The leaues of Cypres boy led in fwect wine or Mede.hclp the ftrangury and difficulty of making E 

 water. , 5 



It is reported that the fmoke of the leaues doth driue away gnats,and that the clogs doe fo like F 

 wife. 



The fhauings of the wood laid among garments preferue them from the moths : the rofin kille th G 

 MothSjIittlewormes^ndmagots. 



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%^4rb~or Vita . 



The Treeof Life. 



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0/ */;£ f ra of Life. 



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Het ree of Life growes to the height of a fmaj 



tree,the barke being of a dark reddifh colour; 



the timber very hard, the branches fpreading 

 themfelues abroad , hanging downe toward the 

 ground by reafon of the weakeneife of the twiggie 

 branches furcharged with very oileous and ponde- 

 rous leaues, calling, and fpreading themfelues Jike 

 the feathers of a wing,refembling thofe of the Sa- 

 uine tree,but thickcr,broader,and more ful of gum - 

 mie or oileous fubftance: which being rubbed in 

 the hands do yeeld an aromatick,fpicie,or gummy 

 fauor, very pieafant and com for table .-among ft the 

 leaues come forth fmall yellowifh flours,wrnch in 

 my garden fall away without any fruit : but as it 

 hath beene reported by thofe that haue feene the 

 fame, there followeth a fruit in hot Regions,much 

 like vnto the fruit of the Cypres tree, but fmaller, 

 compad of little and thinne fcales clofely pa& one 

 vpon another, which myfelfe haue not yet feene. 

 The branches of this tree laid downe in the earth 

 will very eafily take root,euen like the Woodbind 

 or fome fuch plant ; which I haue often proued, and 

 thereby haue greatly multiplied thefe trees. 



This tree groweth 



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h endureth the cold of our Northerne cly mat, yet doth it Ioofe his gallant greenes in the 

 ^oneths : it floureth in my garden about May . 



winter 



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recall ic Cedrm Ljcia : the new writers doe terme it Arbor w<e.inEnglith,the Tree oi Life 

 n °t mcanethat whereof mention is made,Gf».3.2a. 



fT The Temperature, 



Both the leaues and boughes be hot and dry . 



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rog the plants of the New-found Land,this Tree, which TkcpWaft 



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