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Of Fruits. 
Part -It 
(a) Gariias 
ab Horto. 
near two inches. On one fide, very Convex 5 on the op- 
pofite, almoft flat. The Bafe Oval 5 the top, prefently 
lharpen’d into a point. Of a ruflct colour, very hard, 
ruged, and having broad Furrows, moll of them running 
by the length 5 out of home of which arife feveral woody 
Fibers. 
Another like STONE. Tis as big as a Pullets Egg. 
On one fide more Convex, as the former. Of a rulfet 
colour, hard and granulated. All over uneven with 
many, though not very deep Furrows, divers whereof are 
produced from the Bafe almoft to the Cone. 
The faid Furrows, both in this and all the other Stones, 
are to be undcrftood the Seats of woody Fibers , wherewith 
they were originally fill’d up. 
A TWIN Almond-Stone. 
GUM LACK, naturally adhering to a fmall Branch of 
its own Tree, called Ter Indie a 5 a fort of Plum-Tree grow¬ 
ing ill Pegu, Martaban , and feme other parts, fometimes as 
big as a WaUnut-Tree. (a) ’Tis generally agreed, That this 
Gum is made, in Summer- time, by Winged-Aw/s, out of the 
Tree it felf. Gar fiat, adds, as Wax is by Bees. How far 
the Comparifon holds, requires examination. Inthe mean 
time, ’tis moll likely, That thefe Ants finding the Sap or 
Gum of this Tree agreeable for their food or other ufe, 
and nibling the Barque to come at it, it thereupon iflues at 
the Wounds they make. 
The Indians make feveral forts of artificial Lacks, by 
mixing this Gum with other Materials of all colours. 
With thefe, all the turn’d Wood-Works 111 India and 
China are wrought and burnilhed. Trochifci Dialacc#, a 
Medicine formerly much commended, but now obfo- 
lete. 
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