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Water is to be put into the Pot upon the remainder, and 
to be boyled as before, to extratt all the Juice and what 
remains of the fpirituous part of the Root. Thefe two 
Dofes are to be taken, one in the Morning, and the o- 
ther at Night. 
As to the Places where this Root grows, becaufe you 
will fee them marked in the new Map of Tartary , a Co- 
py of which we (hall fend into France , I fhall only ob- 
ferve here in general, that it is between the thirty ninth 
and forty feventh Degree of Northern Latitude, and 
between the tenth and twentieth Degree of Eaftern Lon- 
gitude, reckoning from the Meridian of Peking. There 
is tnere a long Trad of Mountains, which the thick Fo- 
rt ft s, that cover and encompafs them, render almoft un- 
payable. It is upon the declivities of thefe Mountains 
and in thefe thick Forefts, upon the Banks of Torrents 
or about the Roots of Trees, and amidft a thoufand o- 
ther different forts of Plants, that the Gin-feng is to be 
found. It is not to be met with in Plains, Vallies, Mar- 
llies, the bottoms of Rivulets, or in Places too much 
expofed and open, if the Foreft take Fire and be con- 
fumed, this Plant does not appear till two or three Years 
after : It alfo lies hid from the Sun as much as poftible; 
which (hews that Heat is an Enemy to it. All which 
makes me believe, that if it is to be found in any other 
Country in the World, it may be particularly in Canada , 
where the Forefts and Mountains, according to the rela- 
tion of thofe that have lived there, very much refemble 
thefe here. 
The Places where the Gin-feng grows are on every 
fide fepa rated from the Province of guan-tong (which 
in our old Maps is called Leaotnm ) by a Barrier of wooden 
Stakeswhich incompafles this whole Prov nee, and about 
which Guards continually patroll to binder the Chinefe 
from going out and locking after this Root. Yet how 
vigilant foevtr they are, their gre.cin,fs after Gain in- 
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