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And thus, Sir, I have given you, I hope, a fatif- 
faftory Account of the feveral Sorts of Cinnamon 
Trees growing in this Country. I can affure you, 
t^hat you are the firft to whom I ever communicated 
u ^ Defcription ^ for having been for almoft 
thefe fifteen Years laft paft, employed as chief Infpec- 
tor, of the Cinnamon Trade and Manufadure here 
I have with much Pains and Attention, fo ftridly en- 
quired into this Matter, that at laft I found out all the 
feveral forts of bad Cinnamon, which were formerly 
mix’d with the true and good one; and have been able 
to fliew Samples of the Bark, Root and Leaves of every 
one of them to our Diredors, who thereupon, to fliew 
their Satisfadion, that a Thing of that Confequence 
was at laft, after many laborious Searches difcovered,' 
and thinking it a Thing well worth a farther Enquiry,, 
were {fleafed to augment the 1 early Salary annex’d to 
this Ofhce. 
It now remain?,, that I fliould inform you,, in how 
many Years the Cinnamon Trees grow ripe enough, and 
become fit to have the Bark ftript off. And here I 
will confine my felf only to the firft and beft Sort,, 
which IS Yearly exported by the Company,, and what 
1 lhall mention of it, may ferve at the fame Time to 
anlwer in fome Meafure fuch Queries as inisht be 
made about the others. ^ 
All tlie feveral forts of Cinnamon Trees, the beft as 
well as the reft, muft growa certain Number of Years, 
before the Barkis fit to be taken off: With this Differ- 
ence however, that fome of the Trees of the fame 
lor^ as for Inftance of the firft and beft, will ripen two 
T which is owin? to 
the Difference of the Soil they grow in ; thofe for In- 
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