( i84r j 
is de^fcribed by 0.11 artd between Q^and U I Pjew a 
few of thofe VeflelS which fprout out of the faid Horizon- 
tal ones, and run circularly about the Bark ^ and how nice- 
ly foever I obferved them, I could not difcoyer one 
Afcending Canal, which mutt needs run lengthways up 
the Bark, in cafe the faid Birk had its Rife from the Root 
of the Tree* 
I placed alfo a thin Scaly Particle of the Bark ot the 
faid Wood be,fore a Microfcope, which I caufed likewife 
to be drawn as in. Fig. A 4. A B C D, the Veifels or Ca- 
nals of which run alfo horizontally from A to B, or from 
C fo D. 
But you muft not imagin that this and the preceding 
fmali Particle of Bark is fo open as is here reprefcHted, but 
conclude, chat the VelTels which run circularly about the 
Wood are only defcrib'd, and that thefe Veffels at firft lay 
clofe to each other, but as' the Vv^ood grew greater, they 
were feparated more and more from one another. 
Fig. B 4. W X Y Z. (hews alfo a little Scale of the 
Bark, of the Tvv^igof a Tree, in v^hichthe Veffeis defcrib'd 
by W X or Z Y do alfo run circularly about the Wood, 
but I have forgot to what Tree it belongd, it having been 
Ibme time drawn before Itook any notice of. it.' 
r After tbefe-Obfervations, I remeiiibred that 1 had lying 
by nae a piece of the Bark of a Cinnsimon Tree, which was 
given rae by an Officer that had been a Prifoner at Cw4^ 
■m t i\e. iilii nd .of Ceylotj, . , ' . . ' 
This -piece oi Cinnamon Eark wa^ near 8 inches long, a 
fmsll part of which is reprefented by Fig. 5. E "F, G H. 
I judgeiAby the divilion, which I obferv'd betwee/i I 
and G, and which was the thicbiefs of the Bark, that the 
;jCinnaraoa ,3rree to which . this belonged, was very near 12 
,5?e4rs old, and according tq the fame remarKS,' that th^^ 
irlxfie ,w;^$: about; 6 inches diameter, 
I have feveral times examined the oacfide of ^this Bark^ 
and alwayjs found it was fo weak or brittle' as if ; ic^vverc 
• partly 
