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feum, and have looked very carefully over Dr. Kcemp- 
fer’s fpecimens, and do dncerely think, as did other 
judges at the fame time, that the Sitz-dsju is not 
the fame with the Carolina pennated Toxicoden- 
dron, nor the Taji-no-ki the fame with Father D’ln- 
carville’s China varnifh-tree. 
Mr. Miller informs us, that one of the bed: kinds of 
varnifhes is collected from the Anacardium in Japan. 
In anfwer to this, I muft beg leave to fhew the 
Society, that Dr. Kcempfer does not fo much as 
mention, that this Anacardium grows in Japan j but 
that the varnifh, which is collected from it, is brought 
to them from Siam : and I believe it will appear 
plainly, from what follows, that there is not a plant 
of this kind in the kingdom of Japan ; for Siam and 
Cambodia, efpecially the parts of thofe kingdoms, 
where Kcempfer informs us this * Anacardium grows, 
lie in the latitudes of from 10 to 15 degrees north, 
which mud: be full as hot as our Well Indies: fo 
that it is not probable, that it would bear the cold 
of the winters in Japan ; for Japan lies from the la- 
titudes of 33 to above 40 degrees north, which is 
about the fame parallel with our North American 
colonies. 
I lhall now beg leave to lay before the Society 
that padage of Dr. Kcempfer, which relates to this 
difpute, together with my trandation of it, that it 
may be compared with Mr. Miller’s trandation, which 
he gives us in his reply to the Abbe Mazeas’s letter, 
Philofoph. Tranf. vol. xlix. p. 164. 2d paragraph. 
* This is likewife called the Malacca Bean, from its growing 
in great plenty on that coaft, near the equino&ial line. 
Dr. 
