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reddifh brown colour, flightly fulcated. 

 The leaves are large, of a deep green, 

 and narrow at each end. The wood 

 has a thin white fap, but within it is of 

 a deep red colour, beautifully variegated 

 with whitifh ftreaks and fpots. It is 

 hard, heavy, and fhining, and would 

 make elegant furniture, was it not fo 

 eafily fplit ; but, this quality renders it 

 fuitable for ftaves for fugar hogfheads, 

 for which alone it is ufed. The bark, 

 which is fomewhat bitter, is a very 

 good emetic, and the only one which 

 the Indians ever ufe in this part of 

 Guiana, They ufually boil two or three 

 drams in a quart of water, of which 

 they drink a few fpoonfuls, which im- 

 mediately excite the ftomach to vomit- 

 ing ; thefe draughts are repeated, until 

 the neceffary evacuation is obtained. 



The American Nutmeg Tree is found 

 only in the far inland parts of the coun- 



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