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Hi, Part of a Letter from Mr. George Dampietj- 
Dated^ Exmouth, November lo, 16^7. to 
Mr. William Dampier, bis Brother^ concern- 
ing the Cure of the Bitings of mad Creatures. 
With a Remark^ on the fame by Hms Sloane, 
M D. 
YOUR Laft I did not anfwer fooner, became I 
had no Opportunity of fending the Herb you feat 
for (if I may call it fo) I fought Two or Three Miles 
about at firft, before I found any of it, $nd afterwards 
found fome of it as I was walking by the way fide ; both 
which I have fent you. I have fent it as it grew^ 
without feparating the Earch, Mofs, and Grafs that 
grew about it, becaufe you may know it the better 
when you fee it ; you mufk look for it in dry Grounds | 
light and fandy Ground, where Sheep feed, doth com- 
monly afford it, but on Emett Butts, and Banks only ^ 
Rich Land doth feldom afford it,butour Unfcle did prefer 
that that grows on good Ground, before that which 
grows on too light &ind, for he utterly refuftd what 
grew in our Rye-Fie!d Grounds, and would look for it 
in flronger Land, faying, that though it was the fame^ 
it wanted Strength and Vertue, as the Land did it grows 
on. It is a fort of Jews Ear^ and I know no other 
Name for it, but Atires Judak£^ ox Fmgm Samhcinm^ 
which is properly the Jem Ear that grows on the AUer^ 
this grows on the Ground as clofe as may be to it, be« 
ing flat on it, the Mois and Grais gco weth up about and 
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