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NATURAL HI6T0RT. 
mountebanks who pretend to have the fecref ' 
of embalming. The wood is faid, likewife, 
to yield an oil which preferves books and 
writings. 
My Lord Bacon aflerts, that cedar will 
continue found a thoufand years. Of thii 
wood it is needlefs to obferve, that the timber 
work of that glorious ftrudture, the temple ^ 
of Jerufaiem, was formed. 
ANANA PLANT. 
ROM this plant is produced a fpeciesof 
pine-apple that is reckoned, from its richnefs 
of flavour, the king of fruits. It has the 
delicious tafles of the peach, quince, and 
mufcadinc grape, united. The fop of it is 
adorned with a little crown, and a bunch of 
red leaves like fire. When the crown falls, 
which is thought to be an emblem of its roy- 
al excellence, another fucceeds, poflefling 
all its predeceflfor’s qualities. The plant is her- 
baceous, and has leaves fomewhat refembling 
thofe of the aloe. The fruit, which is like the 
cones of the pine-tree, is fuppofed to have 
been the caufe of its name. The place of 
its nativity is not determined: it was, how- 
ever, firfl: brought from the Eaft-India fac- 
tories, and planted in the hotteft iflands in 
the Welf-Tndies, where it fucceeded fo well, 
as to afford now a moft plentiful produce. 
