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hinted, that it was worth the trial. Nor was my 
hint grounded on thofe experiments only, but on 
the informations I had received from perfons of the 
bed; credit, w 7 ho had refided long in the American 
iflands, that people are very careful to keep their 
linen at a diftance from thofe trees, well knowing, 
that if a drop of the juice fell upon it, they could 
never walh out the ftain. 
But Mr. Ellis, in order to prove that this tree has 
no fuch quality of Gaining, fays, he has made fome 
experiments on the cauftic oil, with which the fheli 
or cover of the Cafhew-nut abounds ; and that he 
found it was not endued with any ftaining quality. 
But furely thofe experiments cannot be mentioned to 
prove, that the milky juice of the tree has not this 
property : and Sir Hans Sloane, in his Hiftory of 
Jamaica, fays, that the inhabitants of Jamaica ftain 
their cottons with the bark of the Cafhew-tree. 
I fhall not intrude farther on the patience of the 
gentlemen, who may be prefent when this paper is 
read ; but humbly crave their pardon for detaining 
them fo long : nor Ihould I have given them this 
trouble, had not I thought my reputation concerned 
on die occalion. 
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