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grows ; and, if they have a thermometer, to mark the 
height of it, at the time of flowering of each plant, and 
alfo the medium of the fummer heat,, and winter’s cold 
of each climate which hints may be of great ufe to 
Gardeners, who are employed in railing and propagating 
thefe plants. 
I mull: further add, that there is at prefent a laudable fpirit 
among many of the curious Eaft-India captains, who are deter- 
mined, if poffible, to bring over alive, plants of the true 
black-pepper, the CaJJia Lignea^ the Rattan, and. true walking 
Cane, Mangos and Mangofteens, Cardamums, Sago Palm, 
Sappan-tree, and Jljfa Foetida, and to fearch for the valuable 
fpices near fome of our fettlements ; fp that in a few years, I 
hope, if this ufeful w’ork is carried on wdth the fame fpirit as 
at prefent, our Colonies in North- America and the Weft- 
Indies, will be In pofleffion of all the ufeful plants of the Eaft, 
as well as thofe of the Spanilh and Portuguele fettlements in 
South-America, 
F I N I S, 
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