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grew mofl: plentifully in the Molucca Iflands, 
until the Dutch pulled them up, to prevent 
the produce being diared by the Englifh, and 
other nations. They were then tranfplanted 
to an idand called Ternati, which was in the 
entire podedion of the Dutch. Thus every 
other people is obliged to purchafe from 
them this valuable merchandife. 
The cloves are only pulled from the trees, 
fpread in the open fields, and thus dried 'in 
the fun : the only care that is afterwards re- 
quired, is to preferve them from the air. 
Some authors defcribe the royal clove, fo 
called from bearing on its top a crown ; 
which is one reafon of the king of this idand 
keeping it in his podedion ; and from the 
fabulous opinion, that the other trees bow 
to this, as their fovereign. 
PEPPE R-TREE. 
^ J ^ HE fruit of this tree is the black Ead- 
India pepper : it grows in the manner of a 
climbing vine or creeper, and produces the 
fruit in finall cluders like our currants. 
1 he ripe feeds are about the fize of a large 
currant, which turns, in drying from a red 
to a black colour. It is faid the common 
white pepper is only the black dripped of 
its outward ficin, which is effeffed by deep- 
ing it in fea-water, then drying and rubbing 
it 
