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ing to fix properly thefe various terms, it did 
appear to the late Mr. Ray, that our cinnamon, 
the cinnamon of the antients, and the cajjia lignea of 
the antients, were quite or nearly the fame thing ; and 
that they only had their difference from the foil, 
in which they were produced, or from the circum- 
rtances under which they were brought. Thus the 
younger branches of the tree with their bark cover- 
ing them were called by the Greek writers xiwa.fA.6o/jt.ov, 
cinnamomum , and fometimes ^v^oxaaia, or cajjia 
lignea ; but when they were diverted of their bark, 
which, by its being dried became tubular ; this bark 
was denominated xa.aU aujiy%, or cajjia fijlula. But 
as, in procefs of time, the wood of this tree was 
found ufelefs, they rtripped the bark from it, and 
brought that only, which curtom prevails at this 
day. 
Both Theophrartus and Pliny mention a very odd, 
and moft undoubtedly a fabulous account of the 
manner of feparating the bark from the wood. 
They fay, that it is cut into fhort pieces, and few’d 
up in a frerti hide ; and that then the worms pro- 
duced by the putrefaction of the hide deflroy the 
woody part, and leave the bark untouched. 
Plowever the cinnamon, or cajjia cinnamcmea of 
Herman, the cajjia lignea , and cajjia jiflula of the 
antient Greek writers might approach near each 
other, they were applied by the moderns to very 
different fubrtances. By cinnamon is now always 
underftood that only produced in Ceylon ; by cajjia 
lignea , the cinnamon of Sumatra, Java, and Mala- 
bar, much inferior, in every refpeCt, to the former, 
tho’ nearly agreeing therewith in appearance, and 
not at all woody, as the appellation feems to inlinuate ; 
