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name of Cafiarilla de Loja, or Qiiinquina. Of this 

 fpecifjc there are different kinds, one of which is more 

 efficacious than the others. M. de Juilieii, whom I 

 have already had occafion to mention more than onccj 

 being fent to make botanical obfervations, and take 

 care of the health of the academicians, took the trou- 

 ble of making a journey to Loja^ purely to examine 

 the tree which produces it; and in a full defcription^ 

 which he drew up for the fatisfa6lion of botaniRs and 

 other curious perfons, enters, with his knovv^n fkill and 

 accuracy, into a very minute diftindion of the feveral 

 fpecies, and enumerates the fmalleft circumftances. 

 At the fam.e time he was pleafed to inform the cor- 

 regidor of the differences, and to inftruct the Indians 

 employed in cutting it to diftinguifn each fpecies^ 

 that the bed fort only mip-ht be fent unm.ixed to 

 Europe, Nor was this all ; he farther inilruded 

 them how to make an extra6l of it, and prevailed on 

 the inhabitants of that territory to ufe it, where its vir- 

 tues had till that time been negleded, though inter- 

 mitting fevers are there as common as in any other 

 parts. Before he undeceived them^, the natives ima- 

 gined that it was exported to Europe only as an in- 

 gredient in dying ; and though they were not entirely 

 ignorant of its virtues, they made no ufe it, little 

 imagining that a fmiple of fo hot a nature could be 

 good for them. But this ingenious phyfician con- 

 vinced them of their miftake by many happy effedus ; 

 fo that now it is generally ufed in all kinds of fevers: 

 and perfons of undoubted veracity, who have fince 

 vifited Loja, have given me very pleafing accounts 

 of its falutary effe6ts. 



The tree which produces the cafcarillaj is not of 

 the largeft fize, its ufual height being about two toifes' 

 and a half, and the body and branches of a propor- 

 tionate thicknefs. In this, however, there is fome dif- 

 ference, and in that confrlls the goodnefs of the caf- 

 carilla, the largeft branches aot yielding the beft.- 



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