life, and turning grey Hairs into black, by- drinking its txi- 
fufion tor fome time, infomuch that- they fay it's to be h^d 
in value from lo Tael to looo or 2000 a fingle Root 5 for 
the larger it is, the more is its value and efficacy 1 which 
is too much Money here 'fo^ try .'the Experiment: _ You have 
it mentiori'd in- Ckyer^^'' Medidp-a Smi^a-N6\8j,. under- the 
name of Ho-xeu-u, according to xh^ i^Wug/il (pelliog ;\. It'f 
likewife painted in the -27th, tiiofe Planes 'Mx-Peti- 
ver had of me/^ ydiiil liSVe^^ ftory of its difcovery, 
which I will not warrant for Gofpel, It runs thus. Upon a 
time a certain perfon going a Simpling among the Moun- 
tain3, ■felliby-a.fcid^nx i filofuch a Iteep Valley, that he could 
by .no. mQaps ^P^Q^: of itagain 5^ whereupon looking about 
-fbi:_/9i$iethip§^to Ateia Ms Melancholy Coil- 
ditiQU, he^efpyd.this Root, of which lie made trya!^ and 
found that in. eating thereof, it ferv'd him both for Provi-^ 
fions and Cloathing, by keeping his Body in fuch a teoipe- 
Fa6pi3£,;. that jtih^e iioj^FipS; qf the,Wqat;her had no iuHuence 
upon hini during hisrftay there, .which wa^ fome hundreds 
of years 5 till at laft an Earthquake happened in that place, 
whereby the Mountains were rent, atid he found a palTage 
out ;XP tij^iHQufp, from whence he had been fo long ab- 
fent : But the many Alterations that came to pafs there in 
fiach fpaceipf time, u oi?J)d^]no|: permit them to give credit 
to.Ms ftory till CQnfulting the Annals of their Family, 
which gave an account of one of them loft at that time, 
they were .confirm'd in the truth of. jbi^ Relation. And fo 
much for this. y \ 
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