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Yis not eaJy, I acknowledge, for us at prefent to explain 
how) for otherwife I do not fte, how we can conceive 
this Country fliould be fupply'd with this Creature, that 
for ought 1 can yet hear, is not to be found io. a!i our 
Neighbourhood round about us, nay, perhaps io any 
other Part of Europe^ Afia or Africa : Aed then 'tis certain 
ss Ireland is the laft or molt Wefiero part of the Old 
World ', fo'tisnesreft of any Country to the moft Eaftern 
Parts of thtNew^ Canada, New-Englafidy Fjrginia^^^c, 
the great Traft of Land, and the only one ! yet know, 
remarkable for plenty of the Moofe-Deer, 
And we may obferve yet farther, That a fbrt of Alli- 
ance between chefe Countries of Ireland and the WeJl^In* 
dies^ appears likewife in other things, of which they 
partake both in common. For as they on the Coaft of 
New-England and the Ifland Bermudas gather confidera- 
b!e Quaniities of Amher^greefe ; foon the Weftern Coaft' 
of Ireland^ along the Counties of SUgo^ Mayo, Kerry 
and the Ifles of Arran they frequently meet with large 
parcels of chat precious Subftance, fo highly valued for 
its Perfume. In the Year 1691. Mr.Confianthie am 
Apothecary Duhlin^ fhewcd me one piece of Amhr^ 
greefe {om^ near Sligo^ that weigh'd Fifty Tw^o Oun- 
ces ; he bought it for Twenty Pound, and fold it in Lon- 
don afterwards for above a Hundred. On the out-fide 
'twas of a clofe compad: Subftance, Blackifh and fcining 
like Pitch but when it was cut the infide was more 
porous, andfbmething of a Yellow ifti Colour, not fb 
Grey, clofe and fmooth as the cleaneft and beft (ore of 
Amher\ but like it, fpeckled with whitifti Grains, and 
of a moft fragrant Sent; I have ftilla Piece of it by me, 
that weighsabove Six Drams, with fevera! Samples of 
Three or Four other forts of Amher, all found on that 
Coaft of Ireland; fome entirely black as Pitch, others 
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