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therefore (for I cannot but mention those of the 

 Vermuda again in this place) being so beautiful, tall, 

 thick-set with evergreen-leaves, like the juniper, 

 with berries indeed much larger, and may also be 

 propagated by layers : Affording a timber close, rud- 

 dy for the most part ; easy to work, and yielding 

 excellent flooring, fit for wainscot, and all curious 

 cabinet-works ; keeping its agreeable odor and fra- 

 grancy longer than the rest : There is also made a 

 pleasant and wholsome drink of the seeds, as they do 

 of our common juniper ; of which hereafter. Near- 

 est the Bermuda juniper, comes the Virginia, both 

 yet exceeded by that of Carolina, for the perfections 

 already mention'd, speaking of cedar, not forgetting 

 the Oxy-Cedrus, which is reputed a sort of juniper : 

 The berries so abounding on our uncultivated bushes, 

 and barren heaths, always pregnant, annually ripen, 

 tho' not all at a time ; some sticking longer, so as there 

 will be black, green, and gray, succeeding one another. 

 4. And these afford (besides a tolerable pepper) one 

 of the most universal remedies in the world, to our 

 crazy forester : the berries swallow'd only, instantly 

 appease the wind-collie, and in decoction most sove- 

 raign against an inveterate cough : They are of rare 

 effect, being steeped in beer ; and in some northern 

 countries, they use a decoction of the berries, as we 

 do coffee and tea. The water is a most singular 

 specifique against the gravel in the reins ; but all is 

 comprehended in the virtue of the theriacle, or elect- 

 uary, which I have often made for my poor neigh- 

 bours, and may well be term'd the forester's panacea 

 against the stone, rheum, pthysic, dropsie, jaundies, 

 inward imposthumes ; nay, palsie, gout, and plague 

 it self, taken like Venice-treacle. Of the extracted 



