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Quillota and that of Rancagua ; its height and size are such as to allow the 

 fishermen to make canoes of a single piece of it, and it lasts long in the water : 

 troughs for salting meat, washing, and other domestic uses, are also formed 

 of it. It produces bellotas, which are used for feeding pigs. 



12. Boldo, Ruizia, grows in the province of Conception, and every where 

 to the southward of Santiago ; its height is eight yards, and its girth above one. 

 A bath, with an infusion of the leaves of this tree, is good in cutaneous 

 disorders, swelling of the glands, and rheumatism and dropsy. These leaves, 

 bruised and heated in wine, are useful in defluxions of the head ; the juice of 

 them, dropped into the ear, alleviates pain. Its fruit is of the size of a pea ; 

 it is sweet, but has little flesh : the stones serve for making rosaries. The wood 

 is not generally used ; but it is excellent for pipes for wine, which it ame- 

 liorates. M. Frezier, quoted by the Abbe Molina, probably did not observe 

 the inner bark of this tree carefully, especially in the season when it seems 

 perfectly to resemble the Oriental cinnamon. 



13. Bollen, Kaganeckia, abounds in Maule, Rancagua, and Quillota ; it 

 grows to the height of four or five yards, and its girth is about a foot : the 

 wood is close-grained, and serves for turnery. 



14. Canelo, South American Cinnamon, grows in every province from 

 Valdivia to Coquimbo, and in both Juan Fernandez and Mas Afuera ; it 

 commonly grows about fifteen yards high, and is two in circumference. It is 

 a sacred tree among the Indians ; who assemble under it in their religious and 

 political ceremonies, and also whenever they invoke their deity Pillam. 

 Besides the superstitious purposes to which they apply this tree, they use it in 

 medicine. The bark, which is five lines thick, is juicy, but pungent} the 

 pith is whitish, and is about an inch in circumference. The green wood is 

 spongy ; but when dry it is hard, and fit for any use which does not expose it 

 to water : it affords straight planks for house-timber, and preserves goods 

 from moths. When it is burnt it emits a smoke that is hurtful to the eyes, 

 but which has an agreeable smell, not unlike cinnamon ; the name of which it 

 has borrowed. On being cut, an aromatic gum, like incense, distils from the 

 tree ; and, exposed to the sun, the same gum forms itself into globules 

 between the wood and the bark. The decoction of the leaves or bark of this 

 tree is good to bathe in, in paralytic and other weakening disorders ; taken 

 into the mouth it eases the tooth-ache, cures cancer, and heals ulcers in the 

 throat. If the decoction is very strong, it is corrosive ; and applied as a 

 lotion, is good for the itch, scurvy, and ringworm. Mixed with salt and urine, 



