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grounds, whicb has tlio same figured leaf, only it 

 is larger, and of a deeper green. This may be 

 occasioned by tlie riclniess that attends the low 

 grounds thus situated. The third sort has the 

 same kind of leaf, but never grows a foot high, and 

 is found both in rich, low land and on tlio sand 

 hills. I don't know that ever I found any seed or 

 berries on the dwarfish sort, yet I fin-d no diifor- 

 ence in taste, when infusion is made. Cattle and 

 sheep delight in this plant very much, and so do 

 the deer, all which crop it very short aad browse 

 thereon wheresoever they meet with it» I have 

 transplanted the sand bank and dwarfish y-aupon^ 

 and find that the first 3'ear the shrubs stood at a 

 stand, but the second year they throve as well as 

 in their native soil. 'This plant is the In- 

 dian tea, used and approved by all the savages on 

 the coast of Carolina, and from them sent to the 

 westward Indians and sold at a considerable price. 

 All which they cure after the same way as they 

 do for themselves, which is thus : they take thls- 

 plant (not only the leaves ])ut the smaller iw]gA 

 along with them) and bruise it in a mortar till it 

 becomes blackish, the leaf being wholly defaced, 

 then they take it out, put it into one of their earth- 

 ern pots which is over the fire till it smokes, 

 stirring it all the time till it is cured. Others take 

 J.t, after it is bruised, and put it into a bov/1 to 

 which they put live coal^ and cover them with the 

 yanpon, till they Iiavo done smoking, often turn- 

 ing them over. After all, thoy spread it ujK^n 



