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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. Botpo, 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. Botten, 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, 
