180 Miscellaneous Facts and Observations, 



pears not more than five miles. It is covered with 

 snow almost to its summit. 



Edward Cutbush, M. D. 

 Letter to the Editor^ dated Syracuse^ 

 January lOth, 1805. 



MEDICINE. 



Materia Medica. 



31. The bark of the Platanus occidentalis, or 

 American Plane-tree, commonly called Sycamore, 

 Button- wood, Water-Beech, &c., has lately been 

 used, with some success, in the intermittents of Vir- 

 ginia, and some other parts of the United- States. A 

 tolerable good treacle, or melasses, has been produced 

 by tapping this tree, early in the spring, when the 

 saj) is rising ; then boiling the sap. 



Editor. 



32. Several American species of Maple, besides 

 Acer saccharinum, or the Sugar-Maple, are found to 

 afford an excellent sugar, and in considerable quan^ 

 tity. I here mention two of these useful species : 

 viz. Acer rubrum, and A. glaucum. 



Editor. 



