ACGOUNT 
{pirituous tincture, which I do be- 
lieve would fucceed well, I made 
fome for myfelf and fervants, a 
‘ fpoonful*of which we ufed to take 
when we found fymptoms of our 
difeafe returning, or when it was 
raging in the place in which we 
chanced to refide. It is a plain, 
fimple bitter, without any aromatic 
or refinous tafte. It leaves in your 
throat and palate fomething of 
roughnefs refembling ipecacuanha. 
« This fhrub was not before 
known to botanifts. I brought the 
feeds to Europe, and it has grown 
in every garden, but has produced 
only flowers, and never came to 
fruit. Sir Jofeph Banks, Prefident 
of the Royal Society, employed 
Mr. Millar to make a large draw- 
ing from this fhrub as it had grown 
at Kew. The drawing was as ele- 
gant as could be wifhed, and did 
the original great juftice. ‘T'o this 
piece of politenefsSir Jofeph added 
_ another, of calling it after its dif- 
coverer’s name, Brucea Antidyfen- 
terica: the prefent figure is from a 
drawing of my own on the fpot at 
Ras el Feel. 
‘« The leaf is oblong and point- 
ed, fmooth, and without collateral 
ribs that are vifible. The right 
fide of the leaf is a deep green, the 
reverfe very little lighter. ‘The 
leaves are placed two and two upon 
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the branch, with a fingle one at the 
end. The flowers come chiefly 
from the point of the ftalk from 
each fide of a long branch. The 
cup is a perianthium divided into 
four fegments. ‘The flower has 
four petals, with a ftrong rib down 
the center of each. In place of a 
piftil there is a {mall cup, round 
which, between the fegments of 
the perianthium and the petala of 
the flower, four feeble ftamina 
arife, with a large ftigma of a crim- 
fon colour, of the fhape of a coffee- 
bean, and divided in the middle.” 
The hiftory of birds and beafts 
occupies the next place; and the 
rule which is followed here, is to 
give the preference to fuch of each 
kind as are mentioned in {fcripture, 
and concerning which doubts have 
arifen. As for the fifhes and other 
marine productions af the Red Sea, 
Mr. Bruce obferves, that his induf- 
try has been too great for his cir- 
cumftances, and that he has by him 
above 300 articles from the Arabian 
gulphealone, all of equal merit with 
thofe fpecimens which he has laid 
‘ before the public. He adds, that his 
moderate fortune, already impaired 
by the expence of the journey, will 
not, without doing injuftice to his 
family, bear the additional one of 
publifhing the numerous articles he 
is in pofleffion of. 
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