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After this dlfcaurfe,hc cxamins what is related of a certain Spice, 
'H\kd Pmienu di CUpa^ which Ciapa is a province of Gmtmala in 
New Spain ; and efteems tl^at Spice to the fame with what Her^ 
?if^^^^^ defcribes miittth^nrnt oiXQCoxochith^ or Pepe diTavafco : 
which by his defcription feems to be the very fame with our famaica- 
p^pperM having thofe fcveral tafts ofCioves,Pepper,Cinamon,Ginger: 
Mean time the virtue, for which it is by writers commended, againft 
the Epilepfy and thc Gmtaferem, he faith he could never find in it, 
though he acknovvledg it to be a goodCephalic,and veryStomachical* 
Next,he fpeaks of the praifes given to China-fennel againft many in- 
'firraities, though he found it little better than the European Fennel, 
Annis,and Curain.What X'menes relates of the chips ofS^jfafras^th^t^ 
l)cingk€pt7 or 8 days in Sea- water, they make it frelh and potable, 
he was not fo happy to find true, though he kept Sallafras thin fliccd, 
in confiderablequantityjinfufed'io days in a fmall proportion of Sea- 
water* What is written of the Root fohn Lope^ Pineiro^ growing in 
ZmigHei4r\x\ AfricajSnd of the Koot Delia Mamque^hoxh commended 
for their virtue of Infallibly curing Tertians and Quartans, and the 
bitings and ftingings of venomous animals, he had neither the good 
•fortune to difcover.Further,what is recorded of the flirub oiChegglo, 
a laftefcent plant, found in Cambaja^ that the knobs and beards ot it, 
that look Nor<l- ward, are only Anti-apopleftical^but thofe that look 
South- ward, arefo far from being cndowM with that virtue , that 
they are poifonous and deadly^ he could not find to anfwer his Try- 
als : Neither could he find any great matter in the celebrated wood 
of CAlmba^noT the Vanillas ^ nor the wood oi Labor and Selor, But he 
muft acknowledge the virtue of the Bark of the Perman Tree in Gha- 
'jachil^ known by the nartie o( China di China^ curing Quartans and ail 
forts of Tertians. He widieth, it were as true, what is recorded in the 
praife of thofe two Herbs of China,called Pufu and Gudfeng, whereof 
the former is faid to render men Immortal,thc otber,to preferve them 
always in good health. 
He cannot believe v/hii Manimm in hi% Atlas relates of certain 
f iery Pits in China, able to drcfs any meat in them, and uncapabie to 
confume wood: Norvih^t is written of the two Rivers, Chiemo and 
^b^n the province oiXenfi.tht waters of which are faid to be fo pare 
and light, that the lighteft ftraw fink^ in them; Nor that the Leaves of 
•certain Trees are metamorphosed into SwalIows-,nor laftly,that in the 
Seas China there are certain fcaly Fiflies of a Saffron- colour, which 
in winter live in the water, but in fpring caft their fcales,get feathers 
and wings, and fo fly a fliore into the woods,and their live all fummer 
arid autumn jbutthdi return to their former fhape and betake them- 
fel ves again to the habitation of the Sea. ^ 
' i* Enata kftun-covrciftd in N. ^Q, 
tnthi Ped'/Vrfit/o/? p.ult.1.8. for Khine r, Rhom. p.5i66.1.32.r.<»WiV.p.51^7.1.7* 
r. what the other. p.$ i68. 1.27. r. tharj is ordimrily accountable for, 
■ ' ^V^'- ^" this mmb. Pag.5 177.1.^. in the margin udimimt. 
L0i^DQN,^nniz^ tor 'fahn Mmjn ^^tint^t totk^ R,S9cieti,i67l. 
