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Charm'd with that virtuous draught, th' exalted mind 

 All fenfc of woe delivers to the wind. 



Pliny, lib. xxi. c. 21, gives an account of its efFe6ls. That 

 wicked wag, Martin Folkes, in his witty defcription o^xht Arbor 

 Fit (2., will have it to have been the all-conciliating fruit of this 

 tree, the Panacea which Helen always kept by her, and nfed 

 on all cccafions. 



The Cingalefe ftyle this plant Bandura, i. e. Priapus Vegetab'r- 

 lis ; had Mr. Folkes known this, it would have furnifhed him with 

 new arguments. That fingular charadler drew up the hu- 

 morous paper with wit, which all its obfcenity cannot deftroyo 

 It was intended as an impofition on the good Sir Hans SloanCy 

 and the reading was actually begun before a meeting of the Royal 

 Society, when a member, more fagacious than the reft, dif- 

 covered the joke, and put a ftop to the fecretary's proceedings. 

 Martin Folkes himfelf fucceeded in the prefident's chair. 



In Ceylon are found two fpecies of the bread-fruit, the Arfo- Bread Fruit. 

 carpus of botanifts. One, the Integrifolia, Lin. Suppl. 412; the The Integri- 

 other, the Incijus, 411. It is fingular, that this bleffing to the °^'*^' 

 ifland fhould pafs fo long unnoticed : Yet Knox-) page 14, in- 

 formed us of (perhaps) both kinds, certainly of the firft, and 

 that above a century ago. The Integrifolia he calls by the Ce/' 

 lonefe name, Warragah, which is the fpecies filled with great 

 kernels : fee the fruit expreffed in different plates, entire and dif- 

 fedted, by M. Sonnerat., in his voyage to Nezv Guinea, at page 99,. 

 Thefe kernels are taken out and boiled by the natives, and 

 often prove prefervatives againft famine in fcarcity of rice. Ex- 

 teriorly the rind appears prickly, but the fpines are foft, and 



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