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fee by viewing the thing it fcS th ' ly 

 being thus peeled tecouere h 1 n^w fc* 



to be chsbarked as afore. That C ;««! 

 which is of a pale colout hlth 0^ S 

 dried a, the fun : that of a fair brown 0^0 

 is beft.and that which is blacked hath hi 

 too much dried , and alfo ha th takef fot 

 wet in thettme of drying. 



* 2 Befides the Cinnamon vubarlv 

 known & vfed,there is another fort, which 



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fers from the former , in that it is of a red' 

 der colour, of a more hard follid and corn- 



pact 



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if you chew it, more clammy and vifcous 

 The rafte and fmell arc much like Ciana- 

 mon,yet not altogether fo ftrongas thatof 

 the belt Cinnamon.There is much cantm. 



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of the Antientj 



the tfhich I haue not time nor fpacc here to 



arc nt ion 



bbfcruccUhar both the Cinnamon & Caf- 

 fia that we haue are couered oiier with a 

 rough gray ilk barke like that of an Oke or 

 other fuch tree, which is clean fcraped off 

 and taken away before it be brought vnto 



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The chiefeft places whete the tree* doe 

 grow that beare Cinnamon,arc Zeilao and 

 Malavar $ but thofe of Zeilan are the beft. 

 They grow in other of the Molucca Ifles, 

 aslaoaand lava, thegreaterandthe leiTc, 

 and alfo in Mindanoa,for the moftpartvp- 

 on mountaines. 



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The Cinnamon treegroweth green Winter and Summer, as do all tbeothetsof the Molucca* 

 and Eaft Indies for the moll part ; the boughs whereof are cut offat fcafonable times, by cxpreuc 

 commandement of the King ofthecouhtry,and not before he appoints the time. ( 



There hath bin fome controuerfie among writers concerning the tree whofe bark is Caiua an 

 that tree that beareth C inna'mon,mak ing them both one tree $ but that opinion iV not to be rece - 

 wed,for there is a grcatditfcrence betwixt them,as there is betwixt an Oke and a Cneltnut tree; 

 the tree whofe bark is Caflia is doubtleiTe a baftard kinde of Canell or Cinnamon , in mew 



"vwrvuuicuurK 15 pallia is uouucjciic a uaitaiu *iuuc «-u u«uni «• ' ,'nfrrior 



very like,but in fweetnefle of fmell and other circumftances belonging to Cinnamon tar miex 



Cinnamon it < 



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j, Canetta : in Sp; 

 ■fuipit .- in Latine 



high-Dtitcn. 



as loroe lay, ^yf^otbe^^terfc : in ZtWmfuttrde ; in the Ifland lava 

 Ormus,D4nbtw(i.) Ug mm ChirterfyVood Of China : in Malavar,C4tf h 



ccltgnum&x Sweet wood : inEnglilh,Ginnamorae,Cinnamoii 3 and Cane 



Jfa^nd Cap a lignea. 



rfevf, 



CanttM 



and 

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called C4' 



IHofsortdes writeth^that 



The Temperature and Femes. 



ion hath power to warme, and is of thmne pam- 



Itis 



alfo dry 



and 





