of the Ifthmus of America. ff 



Mangrove^Tr^s grow out of the Water Mm ^< 

 both in Iflands and Main, rifing from feve- 

 ral Roots like Stilts entangled one among 

 another. The Roots or Stumps appear 

 fome Feet above Water, rifing from a pret- 

 ty depth alfo from under the Surface of it, 

 and at length the unite altogether, Ar- 

 bour-wife, into the Body of a lufty tall 

 Tree, of a foot or two Diameter. There 

 is fcarce any paffing along where thefe 

 Trees grow , the Roots of them are fo 

 blended together. The Bark of the Man- 

 groves that grows in Salt Water is of a red 

 Colour, and is us'd for tanning of Leather. 

 I have fome Reafon to think that the 

 Tree from whence the Peruvian or Jefuits 

 Bark is fetcht is of the Mangrove kind | for 

 when I was \aft at Ark* in Pern, I faw a 

 Caravan of about twenty Mules with this 

 Bark juft come in, and then unlading at a 

 Store-houfe. One of our Company, who 

 fpakc Spanijh) ask'd a Spaniard who guid- 

 ed the Drove, from whence he fetch' d that 

 Bark > He anfwered from a great frefh Wa- 

 ter Lake behind a Mountain a great way 

 within Land 5 at the fame time pointing 

 at a very high Ridge of Hills we faw at 

 a great diftance from us and the Sea. Being 

 further examined as to the Tree it grew on, 

 he fo.defcriVdit, by thofe intangled Stilts,, 

 and other Particulars, that our Interpreter 

 faid to him, Sure it muft be a Mangrove- 



Tree!- 



