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river, about 10 or 12 leagues to leeward of Campeachy town, 
It was then worth £90 to £110 a ton, and the Indians cut it 
for a ryal a day.* Dampier’s cargo (1675) to purchase logwood 
was rum and sugar—very good commodities, he thought, for 
the logwood cutters, then about 250 men, mostly English, whe 
had settled in the neighbourhood of One-Bush-Key, Campeachy 
ay. 
n the reign of Queen Elizabeth, about the time when this 
wood appears to have been first used as a d e, an Act of Parlia- 
ment was passed in the 23rd year of her reign (1582) prohibiting 
its use as a dye under severe penalties, because the colours pro- 
duced by it proved so fugacious that a general outcry against 
: o in force 
wewood, since its introduction, has generally maintained its 
ie hk and though of less value, after the introduction of the 
aniline dyes, the trade has never been entirely killed as is the 
facturers represented an out : ; 
; put during 1914 to the value 0 
$1,866,000, the chief of which was jon ood extract—14,500 
ee ee 
* Dampier, lic. i. p- 49. 
t Le. i. p. 21. 
tle. i. p. 49. 
§ name “ Poach-wood” given above may have arisen in this way> 
Shough 1 ; t ie sie not be intended for “ Peach-wood,” ® 
Sec is species as well as to H. Brasiletto. 
Florida, Bahamas, ii. (1754), p. 66. 
mmerce (1834), p. 768. 
