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Cinnamon feems to be much more 
retentive of its virtues than any of 
the other {pices; but it will cer- 
tainly be proper to proteé& it, when 
taken, as much as poffible, from the 
air and moifture, by clole packing 
in cedar chelts. 
' Having thus communicated all 
that I am able from my own obfer- 
vations, refpecting the culture and 
preparation of the cinnamon, I hall 
add what I know with refpe& tothe 
ufes of its feveral parts. 
The leaves, whether recent or 
dried, are fo ftrongly impregnated 
with an aroma, fimilar to the cin- 
namon, that they are om all occa- 
fions a good fuccedaneum for the 
bark, both in cookery and medi- 
cine. Diftilled, they give an ex- 
cellent fimple and fpirituous water, 
and an effential oil, of the nature of 
oil of cloves. Powdered, they are 
a good aromatic ipecies, or marc- 
{chal perfume. 
Every part of the tree, according 
to writers of the beft authority, 
affords fome ufeful product. To 
them I muft refer, till I have had 
“opportunity for experiment. 
Ox the Vegetation of old Grain. From 
Tranfactions of the Bath Society, 
vol. v. 
Gentlemen, 
S.the afcertaining of ufeful 
facts in agriculture is the pro- 
feffed defign of the fociety, any 
thing that may tend to fhew how 
long feed may retain its vegetative 
quality, cannot be unworthy your 
attention. 
In the year 1754, my brother, a 
member of the Bath Society, was 
at Strafburgh, and feeing fome In- 
dian corn growing, he gathered an 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1790. 
ear or cone, and preferved it with 
the fag on it. It had Jain by un- 
regarded till laft year; when meet- — 
ing with it, and the date, place, and | 
time of growth being on it, 1 was 7 | 
induced to try if it would grow. © 
The 28th of February, 1788, I | 
took fix grains, foaked them in VJ 
water twenty-four “hours, put them 
in earth in pots, and then in a hot- 
houfe. In about twenty days they @ 
began to appear, and four out of fix 
grew to about three feet high; two 7 
produced the ear completely form- 
ed, a cone of which [ fend. The 
pots were taken out of the houfe 
the latter end of June, and the ears © 
gathered the beginning of October. © 
Six other grains were planted in the 
garden without foaking, but did — 
not produce even figns of vegeta-— 
tion. 
From this experiment is afcer- 
tained a fact that feed kept dry 
hath vegetated at the diftance of 7 
thirty-four years from the time of || 
ics being gathered. 
Iam, gentlemen, &c. 
Clapham, 
SAMUEL SMITH. 
Dec. 27, 1789. % 
Defcription of the Kanguroo. From ~ 
Philip’s Voyage to Botany Bay. 
ClafsI. MAMMALIA, 
' Order III. Fere. d 
Genus XVIT. Didelphis.—Zin. Syfe 
Nat. p. 71. N° 37. 
Genus XX11. Opoffum.—Penn.Hift. 
Quadr. p. 301. 
KANGUROO. 
Sy¥NoNYMA. 
Jerboa Gigantea, Zimmerm. Zoal.Geogr+ §26« 
Kanguroo, Cook’s Voy. ili. po 577» pli 200° 
Kanguru, Hit, Quadr. p. 306. pl. 35+ 
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