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XU, quires no elaſticity till that property is communicated te female ic by a ſecret art, after which it is poured into moulds and tarch, well dried and can no longer be rendered find by heat.-- 0013, Mr. de la Borde phyſician at Cayenne has given this ac- Jr count. Manna is obtained at Naples from the fraxinus ſeits, ornus, or manna-aſh, it partly iſſues ſpontaneouſly, which od; is preferred, and partly exſudes from wounds made pur- wn poſely in the month of Auguſt, many other plants yield a Wp manna more ſparingly; ſugar is properly made from the ſaccharum officinale, or ſugar-cane, but 1s found in the en] roots of beet and many other plants; American wax 13 ce: obtained from the myrica cerifera, candle-berry myrtle, EE rhe berries are boiled in water and a green wax ſepa- Ei: rates, with Iuke-warm water the WAX is yellow: the hon, ſeeds of croton ſebiferum are lodged in tallow; there are NE, many other vegetable exſudations uſed in the various arts zt of dyeing, varniſhing, tanning, lacquering, and which pe ſupply the ſhop of the druggiſft with medicines and with 10 A poiſons. es"There is another analogy, which would ſeem to aflo- (0.08 ciate plants with animals, and which perhaps belongs to u this Note on Glandulation, I mean the fimilarity of their 9; digeſtive powers. In the roots of growing vegetables, as NN in the proceſs of making malt, the farinaceous part of the )-] ſeed is converted into ſugar by the vegetable power of bi j digeſtion in the ſame manner as the farinaceous matter „M 4| of ſeeds is converted into ſweet chyle by the animal „4 digeſtion. The ſap-juice which riſes in the vernal 2 months from the roots of trees through the alburnum or

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