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Lillies growing in this country. The first are the chief ornament 

 of the houses and gardens, the others of desert and uncultivated 

 places. Nor hath Nature been less kind with regard to the 

 Narcissus, Flowers de Lys, Clove-Gilli-Flowers and the like. 

 But these several flowers fall as short as others of their kind, 



smell, as they exceed them in the beauty of their colors. The 

 same holds true with regard to most fruits of Japan which are 

 ing up to the pies 



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places, along the Sea-coasts and in short, everywhere. Of all 

 these, there are but few but what afford their roots, leaves, flowers 

 and fruits for the sustenance of the people. . . . There is a great 

 variety of mushrooms, most of which are eat. ... Of all the 

 soft submarine plants, there is hardly one but what the Natives 

 eat. Fishermen's wives wash and sell them and are very dex- 

 trous in diving them up from the bottom of the sea in twenty to 

 forty fathom depth." 



In the appendix, there are some delightful papers on " The 

 Natural History of the Japanese Tea-plant," "The Making of 

 Japanese Paper" and "An account of the Moxa, an excellent 

 caustic, with a scheme showing what parts of the human body 

 are to be burnt with that Plant in several Distempers." 



After eight years abroad, Kaempfer returned to his native town 

 : medicine and publish his 



tine observations ; 



sumed his time a 



lished in his lifeti 



his unpublished manuscripts, is di 



tory of Japan;- which was tran: 



original High German by Scheuze 



finally (1777) again into German. 



We hear of no further botanical 



had nearly attained his allotted th: 



a physi. 



3 pub- 



