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Show T A A . L W Of TREES . ( BRI branch of ic, without being {een, though yo come near to it In th e under op fame Province grows a fort of Beans up n a Tree, {o very hard, thyg ¢ people, by reafon thereof, call them Stone-be ns In the Province of Huguang grows Tree, named the Tree of Sleep 5 fo h as fome report, a branch of this Tree app ied to any part of the Body, caufesa {w our parts of the World]d o In t_.he.Prqvince of Sucbz.t, 1 the fmal.l City of Kien, flands an Id wherein is a Tree called Ciennien, that i to fay, the Tree of at which is fo prodigioufly laroe, that 200 She p may ftand in coy er Soo et and pleafant fleep Inthe Province of Chekiang, near the {mall Cit tn ordinary large Trees, that f urfcore men are not able to fatho Nay further, there are fome of thofe T ees (ni fallit fama) of that vafk bignel that one branch will covert at leaft 4omen In the Province of Macao is a Tree called b on-Tree, i regard thc Wood thereof, both fo colour, heavinefs, and hardnefs, refem Iron , refufing to {wim, and prelen y finking when it comes into th Water. In the Province of - Quantung, near Chaoking grows great ftore of fweet an well-fcented Wood, whereof the Inhabitants mak Tables, Chairs, Chefts, &c In the Province of Quangfi they make Linnen or Clo h of the Leaves o Trees In the Province of Chekjang are {everal Woods confifting o Mulberry-Tre which the Inhabitants cut every year, that fo they may n t grow up to any larg nefs ; for they find by Experience, that the leaves of th lower Trees make tl beft Silk : fo that by this only means, all that keep Si k-worms know very wel how to diftinguifh the firft {pining of the Silk from the {ec nd, becaufe the firft the product of the foft and tender Leaves, which fhoot forth in the Spring, a e then eaten bythe Worm ; but the hard and fowre Summer. eaves make th f cond f{piring 3 which alceratijon of the fame food does occafion f greata difference inthe Work of thefe fmall Creatures And fuch is the infinite abundanc of Silksin this Province, that ten Suits of Silk may be bought cheaper then neo Cloth in Enrope eral other of amore ftrange nature, por i 'HIS E: mpire dothalfo very much abound with Trees , grow 1n Europe, but {e et e i O 1) ‘* 1 ol e Y |