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lumbers, with only their backs above water; which 

 might fuggeit the idea of the waving motion of a 

 fcrpent. 



The remaining part of the trad chiefly refpeds 

 the medicinal plants, and the difeafes of the coun- 

 try. An account of fome vegetable produdtions^ 

 T^hich form an article of commerce, being exported 

 in confiderable quantities, among which are reck- 

 pncd the Cloud-berry, (Rul?us Chamamorus^ Sp. 



708), and the Uchen Ijlandicus^ mentioned in 

 the account of the Ufus Mufcorum^ N* 145. Then 

 follows a lift of medicines cafily obtained, or fuch 

 as are in ufe among the country people. Among 

 thcfe the good efFeds of the Linnaa horealis^ Sp. PI. 

 980, in rheumatic diforders, are well known, and 

 rnuch celebrated. He relates, on the authority of 

 the Irefident himfelf, that two men, who had 

 i)een confined to their bed for feveral months by 

 ifchiatic pains, were cured in three days by ^ 

 flrong decodion of it. Its operation appears to 

 Jiave been of the fedative kind, fince the patient^ 

 were thrown into a fleep, which lafttd fixteen or 

 twenty hours. He confirms ^-he opinion of the 

 TjCpra arifing from the Hair Worm^ as mentioned 

 in N* 131 of this colkdion ; and has fome obfer- 

 vations relating to the Colic a Lapponum^ defcribed 

 in M. Montin's thefis, N* 27. The differtation 

 clofes with the defcription of an African plant, 

 called by Linn/£us Gunner in honour pf th^ 

 ^ilhop of Dronthm, 



