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few Years their Race in that Country will be quite ex* 
rind. 
Mr. Arrot fays, that the fmall Bark which curls up 
like Sticks of Cinamon, (and which in England is 
much efteenid, as being cut off the Branches, and 
therefore reckoned better and more cffcdual in curing 
Fevers) is only the Bark of the younger Trees, which,, 
as it is very thin, curls m that manner ; and that the 
Bark oftheBranches wouldnot compensate the Trouble 
and Expences of cutting. He alfo told me, that after 
the Bark is cut off any Tree, it requires at leaft 18 or 
to Years to grow again 5 which is diredly contrary to 
what Dr. Oliver fays in N* 290. of the Thilofopkical 
TranfaElions. He added befidcs, that its Fruit is no 
ways like a Chefnut, as the Dodor informs us in the 
fame Paper 5 but rather like a Pod, which indoles a 
Seed fomewhat like a Hop-feed, and that he had fent 
fome of them to England . 
He could not tell me by what Artifice or Stratagem 
the Jefuits have got this Bark to be called after them, 
if not that they carried it firft into Europe , and gave 
themfelves out as the firft Difcoverers of its Virtues : 
But he allured me, that the current Opinion at Loxa 
is, that its Qualities and Ufe were known by the In- 
dians before ever any Spaniard came among them i 
and that it was by them applied in the Cure of inter- 
mitting Fevers, which are frequent over all that wet , 
unhealthy Country, 
H. An 
