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Some Addtiions to the foregoing Account^ hy 
Albertus Seba. F. R. S. 
A S a farther Explanation of this curious Account 
of the Cinnamon Trees, it will not be araifs to 
fubjoin the following Obfervations. Having fome 
Years ago bought out of the EaJiAndia Company’s 
Warehoufes at Amfterdam^ a conhderable Quantity 
of Cinnamon Leaves, or Folia Malabathriy pack’d 
up in feveral large Chefts, I happen’d to find in one 
of them the Flowers of the Cinnamon, as big as the 
Italian Bean-fiowers, and of a blue Colour ; I chan- 
ced likewife to meet with the Fruit. But I could not 
find either in any of the other Chefts. 
In I7XX and 17x3, I bought of the fame Com- 
pany the Oil, which is exprefied out of the Fruit 
of the Cinnamon Tree, as alfo that which is boil’d 
out of them, which is of a very good Confidence 
and white, and is by the Eajl-India Company 
called Cinnamon Wax, becaufe the King of Candia 
caufes Candles to be made out of it, which for their 
agreeable Scent, are burnt only by himfelf and at his 
Court. However he permits his Subjects to exprefs 
the Juice out of another Fruit, not unlike the Fruit 
of the Cinnamon Tree^ but this ]uice being only a 
thin fat Subftance, like Oil of Olives, they cannot 
burn it any otherwife but in Lamps. 
The Indians ufe this Cinnamon Wax alfo in Phy. 
fick, and give it inwardly in Luxations, Fradures, 
Falls, Contufions and Bruifes, that in cafe any inward 
Part be touch’d or bruifed, it may by its Balfamick 
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