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l)iirning, and the Pitch is only Tar boiled to thar 

 Confiftence. To obtain the Tar, they pile up 

 gixat Heaps of the Wood, and fet Fire to them 

 at Top, and the Tar fweats out of the Ends of 

 the lower, and is catched as it runs from them. 



Burgundy Pitch is made of the Refm of the 

 wild Pine Tree, which is common Turpentine 

 boiled in Water to a certain Confiflence, if they 

 boil it longer, it would be Refm, for^ the com- 

 mon Refin is only this Turpentine boiled to a 

 Hardnefs. 



The A M M o N I A c u M Plant. 



AMMONIACUM, 



Tall Plant, Native of the Eajl^ arid very im- 



perfeftly defcribed to us. What we hear of 

 it is, that it grows on the Sides of Hills, and is five 

 or fix Feet high -, the Stalk is hollow and ftriated, 

 and painted with various Colours like that of our 

 I^emloc. The Flowers, we a"re told, are fmall and 

 white, and ftand in great round Clufters at the 

 Tops of the Stalks, the Leaves are very large and 

 compofed of a Multitude of fmall Divifions : One 

 Circumftance v/e can add from our ov/n Know- 

 ledge to this Defcription, and it gives great Proof 

 of the Authenticity of the reft ; this is, that the 

 Seeds are broad, flat, ftriated, and have a folia - 

 nous Rim, as thofe of Dill. We could know by 

 thefe which are found . very frequently arnong the 

 Gum, that it was a Plant of this Kind which pro- 

 duced it : So that there is ^reat Probability that 



the reft of the Defcription, which has been given 

 us by thofe who did not know we had this Con- 

 firmation at Home, is true. Thefe Seeds often ap- 

 pear very fair and found* I have cavifed a great 

 Number of them to be fown, but they have never 

 grown. Though one of the Sagapenum Seed3grew 



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