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ed, chiefly in consequence of adulterated and inferior bores which are 
supplied from other quarters; perhaps, also, on acc of the more 
si al use of quinine; for, in the production of oe alealoids less 
bark is employed than was formerly used in substance. During t 
e, the bark trade sbcaited its death-blow, and for 
d from Peru. he Montanas of Huanuco, which 
e apothecaries of Europe with the “ divine medi- 
cine,” are be eginning again to yield supplies. From the roots of the 
felled trees a vigorous after-growth has commenced. In the Montanas 
f Huamalies a kind of bark is found, the nature of which is not yet 
named Cusconin.* Possibly the medical bark may again become a flour- 
ishing branch of trade for Peru, though it can never again recover the 
importance which was attached to it a century ago. During my resi- 
d : 
factory at Huanuco. The plan, if well carried out, would certainly be 
attended with success. There is in Bolivia an establishment of this 
ae) 5 part of Canaan Mountain. m, urrall, Esq., County Sur- 
veyor, and since Judge of one of your courts, was called to run the 
ine conspicuous object on the west side, and at the foot of the 
mountain, was a known boundary. The company took their first sta- 
tion on the west ridge of the mountain, “ defining their position” by the 
bearing of the old chimney, some 800 or 1,000 feet below them, and 
nearly a mile distant. On another ridge erhaps a ce we s dis- 
tant, an es having such peculiarities that it might be known when 
om Cuzco, the ancient residence of the Incas. It was discovered by the 
French chemists, Corriol and Pe fete in the Cascarilla which is shi pped in 
Africa ; hence thie atealoid i is also c Aricin. 
