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and by cajfia fijlula , a fruit not defcribed or ufed by 
the antient Greeks, and agreeing therewith in no one 
particular, only that both are vegetable productions : 
great care fhould be taken therefore, that this con- 
fudon is not productive of error. 
Burman in his 'Thefaurus Zeylanicus takes notice 
of his being in podeffion of nine different forts of 
cinnamon of Ceylon ; the mod excellent of which is 
that, which is called by the inhabitants Rajfe C<9- 
ronde , and is what is mod ufually brought to Europe. 
What we now call cinnamon, is only produced in 
Ceylon, of which the dates of Holland are in pof- 
feffion j and fo jealous are they of this tree, which 
affords To valuable an article of commerce, that the 
fruit or young plants are forbidden by an order of 
date to be fent from thence, led other powers might 
avail themfelves thereof. And this they have been 
hitherto fuccefsful enough to keep to themfelves ; 
tho* in Ceylon, according to Mr. Ray, the cinnamon- 
tree grows as common in the woods and hedges, as 
the hazel with us, nor is of greater edeem with the 
inhabitants than other wood, but is ufed by them as. 
fuel, and applied to other domedic purpofes. I am 
apprehendve, that the prohibition of fending cinna- 
mon-trees from Ceylon is of no long danding, as 
Paul Herman, who redded there fome time, and 
was after his return chofen profeffor of botany at 
Leyden, tells us, in his Hortus Lugduni-Bata'vus 
published in 1687, that he fent feveral of thefe trees 
to fome condderable perfons in Holland, and that 
they continued alfo as well in the gardens of others, 
as in his own, for two or three years, and were 
kill’d by a fevere winter. I am very credibly 
informed. 
