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boding water poured upon them after they have 

 stood a few minutes, fifteen drops of oil of vitriol 

 are to be dropped in upon them, and three drachms 

 ot the finest sugar, in powder, is to be added at the 

 same time, then the whole Js to be well stirred 

 about and covered up, that it may cool leisurely : 

 when cold it is to be poured clear oil. It is called 

 tincture of roses ; it is clear, and of a fine red colour. 

 It strengthens the stomach, and prevents vomitings, 

 and is a powerful as well as a pleasant remedy 

 against all fluxes. 



Rose- Wood Tees. RJiodium. 



There are two kinds of wood known under 

 the name of rose-wood, the one from the East, 

 which, when fresh brought over, has a very fra- 

 grant smell, exceedingly like that of the damask 

 rose, and from the wood is distilled the oil, which 

 is sold under the name of essence of damask rose ; 

 we have no account of the tree which affords this, 

 The other rose-wood is (he produce of Jamaica, 

 and lias very much of the fragrant smell of the 

 eastern kind, but it is not the same : the tree which 

 produces this is fully described by that great natu- 

 ralist sir Hans Sloane. in his History of the Island 

 of Jamaica. The tree grows twenty feel or more 

 in height, and its trunk is very thick in proportion. 

 The leaves are each composed of three or four pairs 

 of smaller : these stand at a distance from one ano- 

 ther on the common stalk ; the flowers arc little 

 and white, and they grow in clusters, so that at a 

 distance, they look like the bunches of elder flow- 

 ers. The fruit is a round berry, often each of the 

 bigness of a tare. The wood of this tree is lighter, 

 paier coloured, and of the looser grain than the 

 eastern rose-wood. 



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