t^i OBober 1748. 



OBober the 1 3th. There is a plant herCj^ 

 from the. berries of which they make a kind 

 of wax or tallow, and for that reafon the 

 Swedes call it the Tallow Jhrub. The £«- 

 glijh call the fame tree the Candleberry-tree, 

 or Bayberry-bujh ', and Dr. Ltnnceus gives 

 it the name of Myrica cerifera. It grows 

 abundantly on a wet foil, and it feems to 

 thrive particularly well in the neighbour- 

 hood of the fea, nor have I ever found it 

 high up in the country far from the fea. . 

 The berries grow abundantly on the femaleJ 

 fhrub, and look as if flower had been^ 

 ftrewed upon them. They are gathered 

 late in autumn, being ripe about that time, 

 and are then thrown into a kettle or pot 

 full of boiling water -, by this means their 

 fat melts out, floats at the top of the water 

 and may be fkimmed off into a vefl^el ; 

 with the fkimming they go on till there is 

 no tallow left. The tallow as foon as it is 

 congealed, looks like common tallow or 

 wax, but has a dirty green colour ; it is for 

 that reafon melted over again, and refined, 

 by which means it acquires a fine and pret- 

 ty tranfparent green colour : this tallow is 

 dearer than common tallow, but cheaper 

 than wax. In Philadelphia they pay a fhil- 

 ling Penfyhania currency, for a pound of 

 this tallow j but a pound of common tallow 



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