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The Armenians C2\\ û\dit Plant Badifamour^ but one of them very rationally told 
me, that they had no reafon to give it the name of that Peftiferous Wind, and far 
kfs to attribute toit thecaufe of the bad clfeds thereof, feeing the fame Plant is 
found in many places, where the Badifamour Wind rages not i as at Lar^ and 
beyond it, and that Wind rages only from Conveften lo Bender i Nay many people 
of Scbiras told me that the Plant is to be found two Leagues from that Town, 
where that Wind rages not, and Î have feen it in many places upon the Road from 
Carzerum to Beiiderkl^ This is a good reafon to prove that that Plant caufes not 
the aforcfaid Wind, but it does not fufîi;iently prove, that with that Wind it does 
notcaufe thefe bad effedts j for it may very well be faid, that if that hot Wind 
reigned in places where there were no fuch Plant, it would not, perhaps, be to 
mortal, bccaufeit may be, that being already very bad of it felf, the malignity 
of it is encrcafed by paffing over thefc Plants, whofe fmell and noxious qualities ic 
carries along with it i but what in my opinion, may ferve to convince us of the 
contrary, beswixt Moful and Bagdad there being no fuch Plants, (at leaft I never 
faw, nor heard there were any) the Wind which in thofe quarters is called the 
is as peftifcjTGViî and mortal there, as in the places where that Plant is to be 
found -, it is theretoiv. impertinent to attibute to it the bad cffeds of that Wind, 
and the rather that that Plant grows all over the Indies, where it is not known 
what the Wind Samiel is. 
BeGdes what the Armenian told me that that Plant is called Kerzehreh, that is to 
fay, AfTes-Gall, for the reafon alleadged before, I found in a Di(^ionary 'ïnrhjfb 
and Perfian^ that Kerzehreh fignifies b. fides, a Tree of Poyfon, and that man af- 
fured me that it was Poyfonous, if but fmelt too. But he gave an Original to the 
Wind Badifamour that had no foliditie at all ■■, for he faid that it blew from the Sea, A bad caufc 
and that upon that Coaft the Sea often cafts a (hoar a kind of a Fi(h, whereof he °f 
could not tell the name, and that that Fifti being out of the Sea dies and corrupts, 
fo that the Wind paffingover it brings along with it that ftench which renders it 
peftîferous. A Portuguefe Gentleman who lived for fcveral years at Bender Congo, 
near which are many Kerzehreh Trees, told me this particular of it s that that part Some partlcu- 
of its Root which looks to the Eaft is Poyfon, and that that which looks to the larides of the 
South is the Antidote -, and that of the Wood of that Plant they make good ^^''V^'"*^* 
Coals for Gun-powder. 
We found befides in many places, and chiefly all a long the Road from VgiaromT^onirt^'^^^^'' 
to BenderabaJJî, a Tree which they call Konar : the Trunk of it is fo big that it will 
require two men to grafp it round i two or three Foot high, it looks juft like a 
Reck, or like many Roots twifted together, and is very knotty and whitilh^ as 
to the reft both in (hape and height it much refembles a Pear-Tree j the Branches 
of it fpread far, and make a great fhade : the Bark of them is white, as well as the. 
inlîdc, which hath a Pith in the Heart like an Elder-Tree i at all the knots where 
Utile Branches cr L-yaves fprout out, there are two large long prickles, which are 
ftrong and red, bending a little down towards the ground, and are not directly 
oppofite to one another. The Leaves are of the length and breadth that are marked 
in the following Figure. 
They are of a varnifhed green colour on the one fide, and on the other of a 
pale and whituh green, and have Veins like Plantain Leaves, This Tree bears a 
Fruit which is ripe in March, and in (hape much refembles a little Apple, of the fame 
colour, but no bigger than a Service, or fmall Cherry. There is little of it to be 
Eaten, for theftone is much bigger than that of a Cherry, and is very hard and 
round, fo that there is hardly any thing but a skin over the ftone. The Fruit be- 
ing ripe is wrinkly and inclining to an Orange-colour i it is pretty fweet but woolly » 
I believe it grows in /^ij/)/ by the name of ^zz^ro/e, and is perhaps the R.hamnus, ^^îX,*''''^^' 
folio fub rotmdo fruUu compre^o Jonjion. Rhamnus , ^ 
Amongit Plants there is a certain Herb in Perfia called Livas, which hath a very ^^^^^ 
curled Leaf, fomewhat like a Beet, or like curled Coleworts, but it is much more ^y^s ao 
curled i the ftalk of it is like the ftalk of an Artichoak, and is very (harp j they Eat Herb, 
of it in the Spring as a delicious food j many will have it to be the Khuebarh^ but 
it is not. 
The End of the Second ^00^ 
