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grave, writers of the bed authority on the Brafilian 
plants, he will find their accounts of the Acajou 
exadtlv correfpond with that delivered by Dr. Browne, 
in his Hidory of Jamaica, as well as Sir Hans Sloane’s : 
for they lay, that the juice of this tree is equal in 
virtue, and mechanical ufes, to the bed gum-arabic. 
And if he dill doubts, I lhall ladly recommend him 
to go to tire Britidr Mufeum, and there he may fee 
a mod elegant foecimen of the Cadiew-gum, which 
will put this matter quite out of all doubt. 
I fhall now leave the decifion of this controverfy, 
which Mr. Miller has obliged me fo fully to explain 
in my own vindication, to the candour and impar- 
tiality of this Honourable Society. 
P. S. Since the foregoing paper was read, Pro- 
feffor Sibthorp was fo kind to deliver me an 
exact drawing of the Fafi-no-ki in the Sherar- 
dian collection at Oxford, taken by the Rev. 
Mr. William Borlafe, F. R. S. the title and 
fynonym of which are both in the Hand- 
writing of Dr. Dillenius, as the ProfefTor af- 
i'ures me. See Tab. XVIII. 
LVII. 
