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be derived from Caesalpinia echinata, Lam.* and No. 3 the wood 
of Caesalpinia Sappan.’’ 
The above report is placed with this species because the 
Museum specimens—Lima and Peach wood—referred to both 
an 
used for dyeing also; some more esteemed, others of lesser value. 
Of these sorts bloodwood, redwood, or Nicaragua wood, an 
stockfish wood or stockfish-hout are of the natural growth of 
America. 
“The Gulph of Nicaragua, which opens against the Isle of 
Providence, is the only place that I know in the north seas that 
produces the bloodwood, and the land on the other side of the 
The wood is of a brighter red than the logwood.t It was sold 
{It is a smaller sort of wood than the former. I have seen a 
tree much like the logwood in the river of Conception in the 
Samballas, and I know it will dye, but whether it be either of 
these two sorts, I know not; besides here and in the places before 
a. 
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He further records** in reference to Nicoya, that by the sea- 
side in some places there grew some redwood useful in dyeing ”’; 
of this, some Spanish Indians informed him that there was little 
profit made because they were forced to send it to the lake of 
Nicaragua. At one place he saw 3 or 4 tons of the redwood 
Which he took to be ‘‘that sort of wood called in Jamaica, 
bloodwood or N icaragua wood.”’ 
That ‘“‘ Peach’? and ‘‘ Lima’’ woods are derived from the 
Same source is borne out by MeCullochtt and Poole,t} who give 
Statistics of the commerce, and also include Nicaragua wood as 
a synonym. McCulloch says of ‘‘ Nicaragua wood or peachwood, 
Se MS aeeteiehay PE OE Be 
* Weisner, Die Rohstotfe des Pflanzenreiches, ii. p. 932. 
+ Capt. William Dampier, Voy. Advent. i. (Liverpool, 1769), p. 60. 
** Dampier, Lc. i. p. 248. 
ett Dict. of Commerce (1834), pp. 851, 852. 
+f Statistics of Commerce (1852), pp. 217, 23+. 
