'A voyage from England to India, in the year 1754, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757 ... Also a journey from Persia to England by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, etc.' [‎464] (517/562)

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and cats fome of, and then returns to the fight, and generally kills his
antagonill. Thefe circumftances I cannot fay I ever faw^.but received
the account from perfons of undoubted credit.
M ulberry T ree.
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This tree refembles thofe of the fame fpecies in England, but the fruit
is much fmaller in India, than in Europe.
C onissie,
Is a fhrub, which grows like a currant bufh on Malabar hill, in Bombay.
The roots run horizontal in the ground, and, if broken, emit a little
milky juice: the ^bark of the root is a fine bitter, and fomewhat of an
aromatic tafte. A decodion of it is given with fuccefs in fluxes. This bark
is rougher, and not of fo deep a brown colour, as that which is commonly
called at Bombay the ConiJJie-hzxk, at Tellicherry the Congerie-hzxk, and by
the late Mr. Swan, Cort de palla \ which is a thin, dark brown bark, with a
whitifli mofs on it, a fcruple of which is given every evening as an excellent
medicine in confirmed dyfenteric fluxes, as well as in agues, and which is
faid to be taken from a large tree, the common fupporter of the pepper
about 'Tellicherry, as mentioned in page 191 : the leaves of which tree are
oval and indented, and the fruit are like an orange in lhape and colour.
Doctor Hill mentions the Malabar ears as the fruit of the tree, from
which he fuppofes the Gw/^fo-bark to be taken •, but the bark yielding thole
ears has little or no tafte, as will hereafter appear j what it has, is neareft to
that of the liquorice root.
After all, the indefatigable Mr. Thomas was of opinion, that the Conijfie,
which grows on Malabar hill at Bombay, is the very fhrub from which that
excellent bark, mentioned in the preceding part of this work, is taken, and
he believed that Don Diego the Portuguefe dodlor at Bombay (by whom we
uled to be lupplied with it, and as he pretended from Tellicherry) deceived
us in the accounts he gave concerning it. Mr. Thomas's words are:
" It grows on Malabar hill, though Diego endeavoured as much as poffible
to hide it from you and me, but I once faw fome of the branches of the
ihrub with the ufeful bark on it, by accident in his fliop, and afterwards
found the fhrub on that hill, the whole of which affords a milky juice.
Diego fays, that he gives the Congerie or Tellicherry bark (he chofe not to
fay the Conijfie) in intermittents only, and that it anfwers as well as the
Jefuits bark j but from experience you and I know that it anfwers alio in
old fluxes, and its virtues are well known to every praditioner in India, as
well as to many in Europe"
C odagi