Identifier: naturalhistoryof00hugh (find matches)
Title: The natural history of Barbados : in ten books
Year: 1750 (1750s)
Authors: Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7 Mynda, engraver Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, engraver Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, engraver Austen, engraver Erbets, engraver Larkin, Edmund, former owner
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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is looked upon to becooling and wholfome. If any of thefe, when near ripe, are gnawed by Ratsor other Vermin, the wounded Part will emit Drops of the moft tranfpa-rent Gum. This Coagulation fhews, that its Juices are much impregnatedwith volatile Oil. Dr. Tow?te very juftly recommends the Ufe of thisFruit in Fevers, provided it be ufed very moderately; for by its grate-ful and adive Sharpnefs it is capable of penetrating through the mofttough and tenacious Scurf, by that means uncovering the Orifices ofthe Salival Duds, and enabling the Glands of the Mouth and Throat todifcharge the Contents, which could not be done before the Impedimentwas removed. The Ground-Nut; Lat. Arachidna. THIS differs very little from that called in England by the fimeName. The Nut, which is the Root of the Grafs, lies three Inchesdeep in the Earth. This is no bigger than a black Cherry covered overwith a ruffet Skin, or tender Bark, the Infide being as folid as the Kernelof a Hafel-nut, and well-tafted. Tie
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Book VIII. IJlandof BARBADOS. 1 The Ginger ; Lat, Zinziber. C^ INGER is rather of the Reed-kind, than of the /m, as MorrifonJT and others would have it. Its Stalk feldom exceeds eighteen Inchesin Height, from whofe Side grow, in an alternate Order, four or five narrowfharp-poiated gramineous Leaves, of about five Inches long, the Extremityof the Stalk ending in a foft-pointed Spire. When the Plant is dug up, itsRoots are thofe flattifh digitated Races called Ginger : Thefe Races arefcraped clean, and Sun-dried. It would be needlefs to defcribe the Qualitiesof a Root fo well known : I fhall therefore conclude the Defcription of itwith obferving, that the ufual time of planting it is in May and yu7te; and ofdigging It up, in February and March. What is moft remarkable in thisPlant is, that the fmall or Seed-Ginger, when planted, doth not decay inthe Ground, as almoft all other Seeds or Plants do: For though it pro- •duces the Plant, and the feveral Races at its Root, the firfl: Year ;

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