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regard to its wholefomenefs to all foreign tea* 

 All the inhabitants here were of opinion, 

 that the water in the cedar fwamps is 

 wholefomer than any other drink: it creates 

 a great appetite, which they endeavoured to 

 prove by feveral examples. They afcribed 

 this quality to the water itfelf, which is rilled 

 with the rofin of the trees, and to the ex- 

 halations which came from the trees, and 

 can ealily be fmelled. The people likewife 

 thought that the yellowim colour of the 

 water, which Hands between the cedar 

 trees, was owing to the rorln, which comes 

 out of the roots of thefe trees. They like- 

 wife all agreed, that this water is always 

 very cold in the hotteft feafon, which may 

 be partly owing to the continual (hade it is 

 in. I knew feveral people who were re- 

 folved to go to thefe cedar fwamps, and 

 ufe the waters for the recovery of their ap- 

 petite. Mr. Bartram planted a white cedar 

 in a dry foil, but it could not fucceed there : 

 he then put it into a fwampy ground, w T here 

 it got as it were new life, and came on very 

 well j and though it was not taller than 

 a man, yet it was full of cones. Another 

 thing is very remarkable, with regard to the 

 propagation of this tree : Mi\ Bartra?n 

 cut its branches in fpring two years fuccef- 

 fively, and put them into the iwampy foil, 

 M 2 where 



