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Received 0 £lober 31, 1769. 
LI I. Some Account of an Oil, tranfmitted hy 
Mr, George Brownrigg, of North Ca- 
rolina. By William Watfon, M, D. 
R, S. S, 
To the ROYAL SOCIETY. 
kind, has always been an objed of our excellent in- 
flitution ; and endeavours to extend the utility of fub- 
Rances already very obfcurely known, have always 
' met from you a favourable reception. 
It is with this view', that I lay before you fome 
pods of a vegetable, and the oil preffed from their 
contents. They were fent from Edenton, in North 
Carolina, by Mr. George Brownrigg, whofe brother. 
Dr. Brownrigg, is a worthy member of our Society ; 
and are the produce of a plant w^ell known, and much 
cultivated, in the Southern colonies, and in our Ame- 
rican fugar iflands, where they are called ground 
Read Dec 
Gentlemen, 
>ec. 14, he 
HE application of natural pro- 
du<5lions to the benefit of man- 
1769. 
C c c 2 
nuts 
