which the fame Creator gives to whomc hee pleafcth; 

 Doctor Fran^Jlmundes hath made agoodly worke 

 ] vppon thisTuBIed^of^/^ plants, liquors, and other 

 I phificall thing$rbythe"Kings expreflTe commifliQn and 

 comrnaundcment, caufingall the plants at the Jndie* 

 to be lively painted , which they fay are above a thou- 

 fand two hundred-arid that the worke coft above three 

 fcore thoufand ducats: out of which worke the Dodor 

 NArdu* Anthoniu* an Italian Phyfitian hath madea cu 

 rious extrad , fending him to the forefiid bookes, that 

 defires more exadly to knovve the plants at the Indies & 

 fpecially for phyfickc. 



ofgrtatfomfts at the Indies jf Cedars >ofCci i vatjwd other 

 great trees. CHAP. 30. 



Although from the beginning the earth did bring 

 foorth plants and trees by the commandement of 

 the Lord,yet hath it yielded more in one place than in 

 another: and befides the plants and trees, which by the 

 induftryof man have beenc Iran/planted and carried 

 from place to place , there are many which Nature i& 

 felfc hath brought forth . Idobeleeve,thatofthisfoft 

 there are moreat the new world, which we do call the 

 Indies y either in number or diveriitie, than in the olde, 

 as Enrojx^4(ia,Q\' Ajjnkt. The reafon is, for that the cli 

 mate at the Indies is generally hot and moift,as we have 

 declared in the fecond Booke, againft the opinion of 

 the Auntients, which caufeth the earth naturally for to 

 bring foorth an infinit number of wilde plants, where 

 by the greateft part of the Indies is inhabitable,being a J- 

 nioft impoffible to travell by reafon of the woodes and 

 thicke forrefls that are there, which they labour dailie 



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