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ble medicine. Oil of camphire is very coftly ; not fo 
*yauch from.its fcarcity, as from its medicinal efficacy. 7 
in a word, there is no part of the cinnamon tree but ~ 
v5 ufeful. , ; 
— SoH ME MEMES — 
CLOVE TREE. 
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Ve IS tree produces a flower, the foot flalk of 
which is what'we ,call cloves. ‘Ihe fruit, when ripe, | 
isa dark brown. ‘Lhe trees grew moft plentifully in — 
the Molucca Iflands, until the Dutch puiled them up, | 
to prevent the produce being fhared by the Englifh, — 
and other nations. They were then tranfplanted to 
an ifland called Ternati, which was in the entire pof- — 
feffion of the Dutch. ‘Thus every other people is 0o- © 
bliged to purchafe from them this valuable merchan- 
dife. Ai ” 
Lhe cloves are only pulled from the trees, fpread — 
in the open fields, and thus dried in the fun: The 9 
only care that is afterwards required, is to preferve 7 
them from the air. Some authors defcribe the royal ~ 
clove, fo called from bearing on its topacrown; | 
which ts one reafon of the king of this ifland keeping © 
it in his poffeffion ; and from the fabulous opinion, 7 
that the other trees bow to this, as their fovyeretgn. 
PEPPER TREE. ° 
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it HE fruit of this tree is the black Faftindia pep- 7 
per: It growsin the manner of a climbing vine, or | 
ereeper, and produces the fruit in fmall clufters like © 
