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unhappy Diftcmpers. I have Rcafon to fpeak welt 
of it ; for it is to it, under God, that I attribute the 
faying of my own Life. I have known it give 14. 
or 15 Stools, whereas ft will not move a Child in 
Health . I take it to be the mofl: fovereign Remedy 
the World ever knew in the Griping of the Guts, 
and admirable againft Vapours. It is fudorific, and 
very aromatic, and will not be concealed i for where^ 
ever it is mixed, it will have the predominant Scent. 
It is moftly called by thofe who know it in Virginia, 
by the Name of Angelica : But (hewing a Piece of 
rhe Root to a great Woodfman, to fee whether he 
knew it, and could tell me where it grew, he feemed 
furprifed to fee me have thereof 5 and told me, that 
he kept an Indian once for fome Weeks with him, 
becaufe he was an excellent Woodfman, and going a 
hunting, (j. e.) (hooting, they came where fome of 
this Root grew ; Tke Indian, rejoicing, gather’d fome 
of it, but was very careful to cut off the Top of the 
Root, and replant it : He then asked him. Why he was 
fo careful ? Whereunto the Indian replied. It was a 
very choice Plant, and very fcarce j for they fome* 
times travelled 100 or 200 Miles without finding any 
of it. He then asked him. What Ufe it was of? To 
which the Indian anfwcred. You (hall fee by-and-by. 
After fome time, they fpied four Deer at a Diflance ; 
then the Indian, contrary to his ufual Cuftom, went 
to Windward of them, and fitting down upon an old 
Trunk of a Tree, began to rub the Root betwixt his 
Hands} at which the Deer tolTed up their Heads, and 
fnuffing with their Nofes, they fed towards the Place 
where the Indian fat, till they came within ea(y Shot 
of him i whereupon he fired at them^ and killed a 
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