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Of Fruits. 
Part II. 
near two inches. On one fide, very Convex 3 on the op- 
pofite , almoft flat. The Bafe Oval 3 the top, prefently 
fharpen d into a point. Of a ruffet colour , very hard, 
ruged, and having broad Furrows, moft of them running 
by the length 3 out of feme of which arife feveral woody 
Fibers. 
Another like STONE. 'Tis as big as a Pullets Egg. 
On one fide more Convex, as the former. Of a ruffet 
colour, hard and granulated. All over uneven with 
many, though not very deep Furrows, divers whereof are 
produced from the Bafe almoft to the Cone. 
The faid Furrows, both in this and all the other Stones, 
are to be underftood the Seats of woody Fibers, wherewith 
they were originally filTd up. 
A TWIN Almond-Stone. ' 
GUM LACK, naturally adhering to a fmall Branch of 
its own Tree, called Ber Indie a $ a fort of Plum-Tree grow- 
ing in Pegu, Martaban, and fome other parts, fometimes as 
W^rfias big as a Wallnut-Tree. (a) Tis generally agreed, That this 
a ■ ' Gum is made, in Summer-time, by Winged- Ants, out of the 
Tree it felf. Garfias adds, as Wax is by Bees. How far 
the Comparifon holds, requires examination. In the mean 
time, 'tis moft likely, That thefe Ants finding the Sap or 
Gum of this Tree agreeable for their food or other ufe, 
and nibling the Barque to come at it, it thereupon iffues at 
the Wounds they make. 
The Indians make feveral forts of artificial Lacks-, by 
mixing this Gum with other Materials of all colours. 
With thefe , all the turn d Wood- Works in India and 
China are wrought and burnifhed. Trochifci Dialaccae, a 
Medicine formerly much commended , but now obfo- 
lete. 
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