(468) 
This is therefore 
Canella alba quorundam. Cluf. Exot.p. 324. J. B.p 461* 
Caff elk alba Park; p. 1581. 
Canella alba ex arbor e^ Ejufdem ibid. 
Cinamomum five Canella tnbis minoribm atba.C.B p. 409. 
It is likewife what Linfchoten in his Defcription of 
America, tranflated into French gives an account of, 
as I fuppofe from Peter Martyr, under the name of Arbn 
m les Pigeons nichent 5 and what Dr. Trapham in his 
Difcourfe of the State of Health of Jamaica, calls Winter- 
Bark^ or Weft- Indian Ginamon Tree, p. 38, Hernandez^ 
p. 45. and Ximenes who publifh'd his Hiftory at Mexico 
in Spanifti, fol. 9. likewife defcribethis under the name 
of Caninga. 
It may be doubted whether this be Afcopo of Hariot, 
which he mentions p. 24. of his Latin Edition of his 
Voyage by Theodore de Bry 9 and by Hakjuyt in his Col- 
leftion of Voyage,^. 275. of Vol. III. 
Thus far this mofi excellent Botanift 5 who was likewife 
pleafed to communicate the elegant Figures of thefe Plants 
hereto annexed, by which the Reader may fee what way be 
hoped in Natural Hifiory from fo Curious a Hand. 
An Account of the Circulation of the watry Vapours of the 
Sea, and of the Caufe of Springs, frefented to the Royal 
Society. By E. Halley. 
rOME time fmce, I ihewed an Experiment of the 
O Quantity-of Water raifed in Vapour from the furface 
of the Sea in a days time, which was fo far approved by 
fome honourable Members of this Society, that I have 
received their Commands to profecute thofe Enquiries, 
and particularly in relation to the Method ufed by Na- 
ture to return the faid Vapours again into the Sea, which 
is 
