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channelled. Thus defining a compound leaf, I seclude 

 several sorts of compound or pinnate-leaved plants from 

 being Phyttitides or Hemionitides, &c. 



The objection concerning the cocoa-nut you have very 

 well cleared and answered. But your balsam tree can- 

 not be Dr. Plukenet's, unless he be grossly mistaken in 

 applying a wrong fruit to it, which yet I cannot wonder 

 he should, since T find him often tripping. 



Concerning the tree called cedar, in Jamaica, you have 

 informed me, I took it to be no other than a sort of 

 juniper. I once saw a young tree, in a vessel, brought 

 from Barbadoes, which the seamen told me was the 

 cedar, so like our European juniper that I could observe 

 but very little difference ; and Parkinson describes it for 

 such, p. 1029, and you know that the Oxycedrm of 

 herbarists is but a great juniper. 



I must confess myself to have been stumbled about 

 your making the two sorts of Guaiacmn of Terentius and 

 other authors to be all one, whereas Terentius seems to 

 describe both from the sight of the plant and fruit com- 

 municated by Corvinus. 



Discoursing with Mr. Vernon about the primary use 

 of respiration, I expressed myself desirous to know the 

 opinion of some learned and experienced anatomists con- 

 cerning it, whereupon he recommended to me Dr. 

 Connor as a very learned, ingenious, and experienced 

 person in that kind ; and I have since wrote to him, and 

 received from him a very curious letter with a brief 

 account of his opinion, since which, being informed of 

 some medico-physical dissertations which he wrote and 

 published at Oxford, I sent for a copy of them, and find 

 the author to be indeed an ingenious man, and one that 

 writes well in Latin. And finding him to dedicate one 

 of his dissertations to you, I thence learn that he is well 

 known to you and acquainted with you, wherefore I 

 desire some further account of him from you, especially 

 as to his temper of mind. I offered him a sight of my 

 papers concerning the subject I mentioned, which he 



