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of that Sicknefs, (he narfed a Male Child, who is yet 
alive, and one of our Faculty 5 from whom I have this 
Relation. 
This Hiftory will afford occafion to divers Speculati- 
ons* which I will not attempt to anticipate, but refer 
them to the Royal Society. I am, &c> 
James Yonge. 
XX V. The 'Defcription of a Tartarian Plant, calffid 
Gin-feng 3 with an Account of its Virtues. In 
a Letter from Father Jartoux, to the Procurator 
General of the Mijjlons of India and China. 
Taken from the Tenth Volume of Letters of 
the Miffionary Jefuits, Printed at Paris in 
O&avo^i?!^ 
Peking, April 12.1711. 
Reverend Father , 
T H E Map of Tartary, which we made by Order of 
the Emperor of China , gave us an Opportunity of 
feeing the famous Plant Gin-feng, fo much efteem’d in 
China , and fo little known in Enrepe. Towards the end 
of July 1709. we arrived at a Village not above four 
fmall Leagues diftant from the Kingdom of Corea, which 
is inhabited by thofe Tartars called Calca tatze. One 
of thefe Tartars went and found upon the Neighbour- 
ing Mountains four Plants of the Ginfeng , which he 
brought us entire in a Basket : I took one of them, 
and defigned it, in its exad Dimenlions as well as J 
could 
