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top it was fix Inches high, lacking one eighth, as it flood 
upright on its Root, and almoft thirteen inches in circum- 
ference ; it weigh'd two pounds four ounces Troy weight : 
There was another near a pound heavier, found under the 
Bank of Hudfons River, about fifty Leagues from the Sea, 
a great wav below the Surface of the Earth, where the 
Ground is of a different Colour and Subfiance from the 
other Ground, for feventy five Foot long, which they fup- 
pofe to be from the rotting of the Body, to which theie 
Bones and Teeth did, as he fuppofes, once belong. It vecre 
to be rrifh’d the Writer had given an ex aft Figure cf theft 
Te.eth and Bones. 
The fecond Letter to the fame Perfon, is dated A Jov. 18. 
V) ix. from Bofton, as all the following are. In this he 
treats of the Plants of America ; and, in the firrt place, offers 
a Conjecture of his concerning the Shittim Wood, mentio- 
ned in the Sacred Writings to be made ufeoffor the Ark, &c. 
It is Paid to be not as mod other Woods, fubjeCt to rot: 
He judges that it was the black Acacia ; that the Gopher 
Wood was the Juniper us arbor tetragonophyllos, frequent in the 
Eafl-Indies t &c. He obferves that the Indians often per- 
form very great Cures with their Plants; of which there is 
a great variety, differing from the European, which he pro- 
mifes a Catalogue and Defcription of; and, for the prefent, 
inftances in fome. As, a Plant efficacious in curing Inflam- 
mations , whence they call it Antierifypelas j it grows plenti- 
fully in the Woods.- A Chymical Oil extracted from it, ta- 
ken inwardly, does Wonders in abforbing fcorbutick Salts. 
Another Plant, which goes by the Name of Partridge-berries , 
excellent in curing the Dropfy ; a Decotfiion of the Leaves 
being drank feveral days as a Tea, difeharging a vafi: quan- 
tity of Urine, as long as the Difeafe lafts ; after which it 
-may be drank without provoking Urine obfervably .* Gouty 
Perfons drink it with benefit. 
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