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the Pores were ftopt up, be fo far taken away, that 
a new Quantity of Juice may exude from its Ca- 
nals. They empty their Cups now and then occa- 
fionally into larger Veffels, or upon Leaves fpread 
upon the Ground, and expofe the Juice to the Sun 
till it becomes harder. By this Means it acquires a 
Colour differing from its natural White according 
to its Softnefs, and the Difference of its Situation, 
by which it admits the Rays unequally. The Work 
is finifhed by covering the Root as laft mentioned. 
The fourth Day they return to the fecond Clafs. 
They gather the Juice, cut the Roots again, and 
cover them. And thus the fecond Operation is 
compleated by cutting the Roots three Times, and 
colle&ing their Juice twice. Then they leave them 
untouched for eight or ten Days, and carry the 
Juice Home in their Bafkets hung over their Shoul- 
ders upon a Pole. The Quantity ufually taken back 
by a Company of four or five Men is about fifty 
Pounds in Weight. The Juice of this firft Gather- 
ing is not accounted the belt Alfa Faetida, but infe- 
rior to that which is got afterwards. 
The Roots having been left for eight or ten Days, 
to recover a frefh Stock of Juice, they make ano- 
ther Gathering. They begin with the Roots of 
the firft Clafs by removing the Bundles and the 
Earth. They colled: the Juice, pare away the Tops 
of the Roots, and cover them. The next Day 
they go to the fecond Clafs : And fo the fame Ope- 
ration is performed on the fame Roots every other 
Day for three Times, and at length they are co- 
vered up again, and left. 
At the End of three Days the Labourers take 
their laft Journey to the Mountains, and the Roots 
of both Claffes are cut three Times alternately as 
before. After this they are left uncovered, whence 
they foon perifh by the Admiffion of the Air and 
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