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Meafure like the beft Caflia, which the Barbarians 
Gall Gizi. Befides, he tells us that he had feen 
fome Branches of Caflia, grown up to the Bignefs 
of a Shrub, which in Appearance and the Thinnefs 
of its Bark entirely refembled Cinnamon, as alfo 
in the mod diftinguifhing Qualities of Tafte and 
Smell. Moreover, forafmuch as Theophraftus and 
other ancient Writers obierve, that in Cinnamon the 
Bark alone is ufeful, I think it may thence more 
probably be inferred, that our Cinnamon is the 
fame with that of the Ancients, and that the feveral 
Species of their Cinnamon, Caflia and Xylocaffia , dif- 
fered only in the Manner in which they were 
brought to them, or from the Soils wherein they 
grew. For in the primitive Ages of Phyfick, un- 
der the Name of Cinnamon, the fmall Plant or the 
younger Sprigs were brought entire, and under the 
Name of Caflia, only the Bark : But when they 
confidered that the woody Part of Cinnamon was 
altogether ufelefs, it was rejedted, and the Bark 
was afterwards brought alone *, which Cuftom has 
been preferved down to the prefent Time. Nor 
was the Difference alfo fmall which proceeded from 
the Climate or Soil wherein they grew •, as at this 
Time it is obferved that the fame Species of Cinna- 
mon-Tree growing in different Countries affords a 
different Bark. Thus the Cinnamon of Ceylon , Ma- 
labar , and Java, differ from each other •, and like- 
wife the wild from the cultivated. Again, ac- 
cording to the different Age of the Tree, or the 
different Parts from which the Bark is taken, there 
arifes a confiderable Variety : The Cinnamon of a 
young Tree differs from that of an old one, the 
Bark of the Trunk from that of the Branches, and 
the Bark of the Root differs from both. 
The Accounts which the Ancients have given of 
the Origin of Cinnamon and Caflia are full of 
Fables 
