S6 M E M O I R S 0/ fl,e 
where broadefl, whence they decreafe to both extremities, which 
end bhint^ the flowers Hand on footftalks -I of an inch long, with 
two, three or more of them together, fbmething like thofe of 
the 'P eric lymef'um -J each of them are milk-white, pentapetalous, 
and they fmell like jafmin, to which fucceeds an oval berry, con- 
filling of two, three or more acini or linail berries, (landing to- 
gether on the fame common footflalk, of a light-green colour, 
with lome black fpots, and in thefe berries are contained leveral 
Mack aromatic feeds, fomething like the ftones in grapes: It 
grows very plentifully in the middle of the freights of Afagellaf? j 
fig. I. Plate IV. reprelents the leaves and flowers on the twig, 
Fig. 2. its feeds: Haifa dram of the bark boiled with other car- 
minative feeds fweats and relieves Icorbutic patients; it has alio 
proved an antidote againft a poifonous fort of feal, called a fea- 
lion, frequent in thoie parts: The bark fold in the fliops under 
the name of Cortex JViiiteranus, Dr. Sloane obferves is not the 
true Cortci^ Winteranus -, they grow on different trees, indiffe- 
rent countries, and their appearance is very different ; yet are they 
fo like in tafte, that he thinks they may be ufed as Succedaneums 
to each other. 
A Continuation of Mr, J. Clayton's Account of Virginia. Phil. 
Tranf. N° 205. p. ,941. 
WHEN you make the Capes of Virginia^ you may obferve 
it to be low land, fo that at lome dillance, the trees apr 
pear, as if they grew in the water, and as you approach nearer, 
they feem to emerge out of it ; for a hundred miles up the coun- 
try^ there are few ftones to be found, only in ibme places, rocks 
of iron-ore appear, and yet no waters are to be found that turn 
purple with g^Hs; providence hath fupplicd the common ule of 
Itones, by making the roads very good, lb that they ride their 
hories without ihoeing them, and they are feldom beaten in their 
feet; for the country and climate being dry, their hoofs are much 
harder than thole of our horfes in England: In fome places for 
fcveral miles together, the earth is intermixed with oilter-fhells, 
and that to the depth of feveral yards 3 in feveral places thefe 
fliells are much cloler, and being petrified feem to make a vein 
of a rock; and fome of thefe veins are about 5 or 4. yards thick, 
and as hard as free-lione; of thefe rocks of oifter- fliells, which 
are not lb much petrified, they burn and make all their lime; in 
the looier banks of ihells and earth, there are often found perfect 
teeth petrified, lome of which were two or three inches long, and 
above an inch broad; the part, that one might fuppofe to grow 
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