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to their coating tallow-candles with it, which I /hall 
mention by-and-by. This wax is procured by boil- 
ing the matter rafped off the branches of the tree, 
the leaves of which are the proper nourifhment of 
thefe infedts, in a large veffel of water j the wax 
fvvims at the top, and, when cold, it is taken off in 
a cake. 
The berries of the tallow-tree are of great ufe in 
the fouthern provinces, where there are very few 
fheep. Almoff all the candles, fold there, are made 
of the oil drawn from thefe berries. They procure 
this oil in the fame manner, that I have mention’d 
concerning the wax ; and as this oil is not of fo good 
a confiftence as tallow, for its cohefion, when can- 
dles are made of it, they dip them in the white wax 
mention’d : the external coat, thus made, prevents 
them from guttering *. At Peking the fame thing is 
done with tallow-candles ; nor do I ever remember 
to have feen them run down. I imagine, that our 
bees- wax would anfwer the fame purpofes with this 
white wax of China. 
The feeds of the Yen tchi come from a plant, 
which I think very particular ; at leaft I cannot re- 
coiled: any thing like it. From thefe feeds or berries, 
when very ripe, a tindture of a fine red is drawn, as 
may be feen in the flakes of cotton charged with this 
colour, fold here. They moiften them with a little 
warm water, and then exprefs the colour, which is 
afterwards evaporated to a drinefs, and ferves for 
water-colours. 
The 
* This is applicable to the green wax of Miffiffippi. 
