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Length to be half an Inch, Breadth five fixtccnth Parts, and 
Weight five Grains and an half. 
The principal Body of each Kernel con lifts of an hard, callous, 
eartilagedike uniform Subfiance, made up of two LamirKe^ firl^ 
laid one upon another, and then rolled and folded up into the 
Figure we have jufi now defirib’d. Whoever views a tranfyerle 
Sedion of a Kernel, the firfi Idea of its Strudure that preients 
it filf to him will be undoubtedly that of a Body rowFd up, as 
I have faid j but I think a mofe eafy Way to conceive that fully, 
will be firfi to imagine two oblong hollow Hemilpheroids cafed 
clofily over one another, and cover’d with a Lid flit thro’ the 
Middle lengthwifej and then that this Cavity is fill’d up by ano- 
ther Body, adhering to or proceeding from the whole under Part 
of one Side of the Lid, but loofi from the other, under which 
the Edge of it is turn’d up, fo as to form a new kind of Sulcus^ 
continuous with the former, tho’ not always in the fame right 
Line. This inner Body I know no better Way to exprefs, than 
by calling it a Procefs arifing from one Side of the Slit or Sulcus 
fo often mention’d. The Strudure of a finde Kernel is to be 
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conceiv’d much after the fame manner, only here the Slit is gene- 
rally wider, the two Sides of it being not flat, but convex 5 and 
fo appear rather to be a Continuation of the fame Figure with 
that of the Back fide of the Kernel, than as a Lid laid over a Ca- 
vity, By this means likewife, the Figure of the Cavity varies, 
and that of the Procefs along with it. In every thing elfe the 
Strudure of both Kinds of Kernels is the fame: And I have 
only thefe two Things further to obferve about them. 
Firfi, that the two Lamina of which they are compos’d, are 
not every where of the fame Thicknefs ,• from whence it follows, 
that one Side of the Cavity is fometimes fhallower than the other. 
In the next Place, the Procefs does not always come out from 
the fame Side of the Sulcus ; or, which is the fame thing, the 
Kernel is not always rowl’d up one Way. By which I mean, 
that the Situation of all the Parts of the Kernel being once de- 
termin’d by that of the feminal Plant, (of which in the next Ar- 
ticle,) the Procefs will be found to adhere fometimes to the right 
Side of the SuJcusy and fometimes to the left. 
Rauwolfius has taken Notice only of the 
Colour of the Kernels, and that, he fays> 
is yellowifh. 
From we learn, that the Kernels 
he found in Egypt were of a fweetTafte, 
mix’d with a little Bitternefs, but no Sharp- 
nefs. Whether he was alcooether in the 
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right in this, I leave to every Body’s Ex- 
perience to refolve them. 
Cltijifis tells us that they are of a darkilli 
yellow Colour, acid Tafte, and flat on one 
Side. 
J.B. that ‘ the Coverings being remov’d, 
‘ there appears a hard Kernel, much of the 
‘ Shape of a dare Stone, with an hollow run - 
‘ ningthro’ itlengthwife; of apaleafli Co- 
* lour, and a bitter unpleafant Tafte j and 
that 
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