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lie, and good for the Spirits and Nerves ; 

 it ufed formerly to be fold for its Weight 

 in Gold in Europe^ and is yet very dear in 

 the Indies^ but not much valued here: 

 The Chinefe do not efteem that which 

 grows in America^ valuing only their own. 

 Rattle Snake Root, Contrayerva, and 

 others. And there are a great Variety of 

 Gums, as Gum Elemi, Galbanum, Copal, 

 Styrax, i^c. and fome aromatic and other 

 foreign Woods. Camphor, the Wood 

 from which the Gum or Rofm of this 

 Name is extraded •, it grows in China^ and 

 fom.e other Parts of the Eaft Indies, The 

 Benzoin, which alfo produces a Gum, and 

 many others. 



Spongi^, In the Repofitory under this 

 Title are a great Number of Specimens 

 of the different Kinds of Spunge, fome 

 very large. They are a Sea Production, 

 and have been long ranked among the 

 Number of Vegetables that the Sea pro- 

 duces, but how properly is not yet by 



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