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412 “. NATURAL HISTORY. 
of the peach. The bloffom has a pleafant orlour, and 
refembles the rofe. The flower being fallen, a fruit © 
appears, as large as a. green walnut: In this is a © 
kernel, which is the nutmeg. It has two barks : The © 
firftis very thick, and is taken off when the fruit is 
ripened ; the other is thin, and of a reddith yellow. 
When feparated from.the nutmeg, it is dried, and — 
called mace. Vhe nutmegs being divefted of their 
bark, are dried and preferved. Ain . 
The nutmeg trees grow plentifully in the Afiatic 
Tfland of Banda, and in feveral other iflands in that | 
part of the Eaftindies which belongs to the Dutch, 
who are the fole pofleffors of this produce. It is faid 
thofe iflands fo,abound with nutmeg trees, as would 
‘appear incredible to relate: And the climate is fo 
iertile, and fo congenial to their nature, that they — 
produce three crops annually, in the months of A- © 
pril, Augult and December. 
~ According to ‘lavernier, this tree is not planted, 
but grows by means of certain birds, which iwallow © 
the truit whole, and afterwards void it, in its perfect 7 
ftate, but covered witha vifcous or gluey matter. -) 
Being thus prepared for vegetation, they take root ~ 
Ww Sven they tall, and produce the trees above men- © 
tioned. 
— Se cNEMEMGhI% — 
CINNAMON TREE. 
at 
JL HIS tree affords a bark, which is the cinnamon, 
fo well known as one of the moft valuable of the fpe- 
cies canfumed in Europe. ‘The tree itfelfis about the 
height'of the willow : It bears little blue cups, which —” 
‘are odorous; and are fucceeded by the fragt, refem- 
bling the olive. PAS, 
This tree grows fpontaneoufly in the ifland of Cey- 
ton, which is poifeffed by the Dutch. There are nine — 
or ten forts af cinnamon: The beft grows in the 

