2 g 2 Dr. Russell’s Account 
Tabafheer. After three days, the found of water, upon disking - 
the reed, could hardly be perceived ; oil the fifth day it was 
intirely imperceptible. 
Upon Splitting the bamboo, about half a dram of the fluid, 
now thickened into a mucilage, was found at the bottom ot 
the upper joint. The fecond joint contained fome perfed Ta- 
bafheer loofe in the cavity. The third joint was empty, ex- 
cepting a few particles of Tabalheer, which adhered to the 
fides near the bottom. The fourth joint, at the bottom, con- 
tained above a dram of a brownilh pulpy fubdance, adherent. 
The lad joint, in like manner, contained half a dram of a 
fubdance thicker and harder in confidence, and nearly of the 
colour of white wax. 
This fpecimen exhibited at one view the progrefs of the Taba- 
fheer through its feveral dages. The found didindly perceived 
in the fird joint on the 23d of Odober was produced by the 
water in a fluid date; on the gid, having become thicker, the 
found, upon fhaking, was very obfcure ; on the 2d of No- 
vember, no found was perceptible; and when the reed was 
fplit, the water was found reduced to a mucilage. The fourth 
and fifth joints contained the drug in a more advanced date. 
In the fird, it was thicker than a mucilage of a brownilh 
colour ; in the fecond, more of the fluid part having evapo- 
rated, the colour was whiter, and it wanted but little of the 
confidence of the perfed Tabalheer found in the fecond joint. 
I am, &c« 
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FAT. RUSSELL. 
Vizagapatam, 
Nov. 26, 1788, 
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