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Their way of making pitch (says he) is thus : They 

 take sapines, that is, that part of the fir, so far as it 

 hath no knots ; and shaving away the extream parts, 

 leave only that which is nearest to the middle, and 

 the pith : That which remains, they call dadi (from 

 the old Greek word A5&e, whence the Latin, taedd] : 

 These they split into small pieces, and laying them 

 on a furnace, put fire to the upper part, till they are 

 all burnt, the liquor in the mean time running from 

 the wood, and let out from the bottom of the furnace, 

 into a hole made in the ground, where it continues 

 like oyl : Then they put fire to't, and stir it about 

 till it thicken, and has a consistence : After this, put- 

 ting out the fire, they cast chalk upon it, and draw 

 it out with a vessel, and lay it in little places cut out 

 of the ground, where it receives both its form, and a 

 firmer body for easie transportation : Thus far the 

 archbishop ; but it is not so instructive and methodical 

 as what we have describ'd above. 



Other processes for the extracting of these sub- 

 stances, may be seen in Mr. Ray's Hist. Plant '., already 

 mentioned, lib. xxix. cap. i. And as to pitch and 

 tar, how they make it near Marselles, in France, from 

 the pines growing about that city, see Philos. Trans. 

 n. 213. p. 291. an. 1696, very well worthy the trans- 

 cribing, if what is mentioned in this chapter were at 

 all defective. 



I had in the former editions of Syha, plac'd the 

 larix among the trees which shed their leaves in 

 Winter (as indeed does this) but not before there is 

 an almost immediate supply of fresh ; and may there- 

 fore, both for its similitude, stature, and productions, 

 challenge rank among the coniferous : We raise it of 

 seeds, and grows spontaneously in Stiria, Carinthia, 



