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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART I
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The Cinnamon is the [The Bark.] Bark or Rind, when it is on the Tree it looks whitish.

They scrape it and pull it off and dry it in the Sun: they take it onely from off the smaller Trees, altho the Bark of the greater is as sweet to the smell and as strong to the tast.

The [The Wood.] Wood has no smell, in colour white, and soft like Fir.

Which for any use they cut down, favouring them no more than other wild Trees in the Wood.

The [The Leaf.] Leaf much resembleth the Laurel both in colour and thickness; the difference is, whereas the Laurel hath but one strait rib throughout, whereon the green spreads it self on each sides, the Cinnamon hath three by which the Leaf stretches forth it self.


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