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(cribe the Plant, we cannot determine whether it be 
the fame, or no, with the white Pepper of which 
we are now fpeaking. 
Piper longitm et Macropiper , Offic. Piper longum 
Orientate , C. B. P. 412. Long Pepper is a dry 
unripe Fruit, an Inch, or Inch and half long, of an 
oblong and cylindrical Figure, like the Juli of the 
Beech-Tree, having many Stria running oblique- 
ly, as it were, in a fpiral Order, with Tubercles or 
fmall granular Excrefcencies fo difpofed as to re- 
prefent a Sort of Net- work. Within are feveral 
lmall membranaceous Cells lying regularly one af- 
ter another in a Row, each containing a roundifh 
Seed fcarce a Line in Diameter, of a blackifh Colour 
on the outfide, whitilh within, and of an acrid, 
hot, bitterifh Tafte. This Fruit, which is a kind 
of Julus or Calkin , hangs by one End upon a flen* 
der Foot-Stalk about an Inch in Length. It ought 
to be large, found, frefh, and to make a flow, 
but lafting Impreflion, upon the Tongue. When 
it is perforated, carious, or adulterated, it is unfit 
for Ufe. 
The Plant is called Pimpilim five Piper longum 
Pifon. Mantis . Arom. 182. Cattu-Tirpali , Hort Ma- 
la E ijif It grows in Ja va y Malabar , and other 
Parts or the Eaft Indies. 
Black Pepper in the Quantity of four Pounds 
yielded in Diftillation from a Retort, eight Ounces, 
three Drachms and an half of Liquor, which had 
the Smell and Tafte of Pepper, and was impreg- 
nated with fome Portion of urinous Salt ; then 
fourteen Ounces and eighteen Grains of reddifh em* 
pyreumatick, acrid, and fubacid Liquor, which 
gave Marks both of an urinous and acid Salt : Af- 
ter this two Ounces, five Drachms and twenty 
four Grains of urinous Spirit, with one Drachm of 
concreted volatile urinous Salt, half a Drachm of 
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