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The Italian ladies still consider the tree of 

 Venus to be favourable to beauty, and they 

 therefore drop into their baths a water dis- 

 tilled from the leaves of this tree, whose 

 fragrance they prefer to the most costly 

 essence of the Eastern nations. 



OAK. — See Pomarium Britannicam. 



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