270 , NATURAL HISTORY. 
fequently flat ; from the fun not having the 
power of warping it in the drying. The 
amazing quantities imported into Europe, 
and other parts of the world, are falfely faid 
to be produced by the trees barking again, 
in four or five years: the real caufe is, that 
the trees, being cut down to the ground, 
fprout branches, which grow, and ripen, fo 
as to produce bark in five, fix, feven, or 
eight years. A fpecies of dove, likewife, 
contributes greatly to the confiderable pro- 
duce of cinnamon. Thefe doves are called 
cinnamon-eaters^ from eating vafl: quantities, 
and difperfing its fruit over the fields, for 
the fubfiftenqe of their young. Thus is the 
vegetation of the cinnamon-tree extended 
over the whole ifland. 
The oil drawn by fire from cinnamon, is 
efteemed as one of our firfl cordials. The 
camphire, which is extrafted from the root, 
is a moll: ufeful and valuable medicine. Oil 
of camphire is very cofily ; not fo much 
from its fcarcity, as from its medicinal effi- 
cacy. In a word, there is no part of the 
cinnamon- tree but is ufeful. 
CLOVE-TREE. 
T. 
_ ms tree produces aflower, the foot-flalk 
of which is what we call cloves, "f'he fruit, 
when ripe, is a dark brown# The trees 
grew 
