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Followjih ExtraBitfeifoutof a Dutch Journal, hlomim U 
ihDHicbEaft'-lndim Company, 
Mber-Grecc€ is oot the Scum or Excrement of the 
WhakjC^fT. but liTues out of the Rootof a Tree, which 
Tree how far foevcr it ftands od the Landj alwaies fljoots forth 
its roots towards the Sea/eekiog the warmth of it, thereby to 
deliver the fatteft Gum that comesout of it:Which tree other* 
wife by its copious fatoefs might be burnt and deftroyed. 
Whereverthat fat Gum is (hot into the Sea^it is fo tough, that 
itis^^ eafily broken from the root, unlefe its own weight and 
the working of the warm Sea doth it^ and lb it floats on the 
Sea* 
There was found by a Souldier |- of a pound, and by the 
chiefj two pieces weighing five pounds. If you plant the 
Trees where the ftreana fets to the Chore, then the ftream will 
caft it up to great advantage. March iSj^/mBatavia, 
Journal Ad vice from ' 
A Letter to the Puhlijher written by one of the principal Chirurgi' 
ens of his Majeflies Fleet ^ concerning the further fuccefi of the 
Blood'flanching liquor^formerly ta^n notice of 
S I R, 
I Doubt not but you have heard^ with what admirable fuc- 
cefs the Royal Styptique liquor was ufed in the laft eo- 
gagcment aganift the Dutch by the Ghirurgions of the Earl of 
Ojpry^ Sir Edward Spragg^md Sir John Berrj^ and others. A 
very good Phyfitian in TarmoHthfivcral credible pcrfons alfo 
in and other places (fomc of whom have taken it in- 
wardly themfelves ) do give the like commendation of it for 
flopping bleeding upon Eruption or Apertion of a vcflel in 
the Lungs or other Internal parts^being adminiftred according 
to the printed direcStioo. 
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