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Natives, in large gourds, containing fe- 

 veral pounds ; but this is too well 

 known to need a defcription. 



I might now proceed to enumerate an 

 almuft infinite number of Balfams,Gums, 

 and Refins, which exude from incilions in 

 almoft every tree, and (hrub : but as the 

 properties of thefe exotic productions 

 are hitherto unknown, I mall leave 

 them in obfcurity, until chance, or fu- 

 ture induftry, mail have difcovered in 

 them qualities which may intitle them 

 to a more particular attention. I can- 

 not, however, omit the Camphor Tree, 

 among the productions of Guiana, which 

 Mr. Sanders, an ingenious Surgeon in 

 this Colony, of whofe veracity I have no 

 doubt, has juft informed me, of his 

 having lately difcovered, by accident, on 

 the Friendjloip Plantation, where he 

 obferved a tree of the laurel fpecies, 

 from whofe bark (which had been pre- 

 viously 



