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The tree wounded in the Spring, yields a liquor, which makes an artificial wine. See Birch, cap. XVII. Of other species, see Mr. Ray’s Dendrolog. Tom. III. p. 5, 6.

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{101:1} See Servius introduc’d discoursing of this and other nuts, Macrob. Saturn. l. 3. c. 18.

{104:1}

Illa domi natas, nostraque ex arbore mensas Tempora viderunt: hos lignum stabat in usus, Annosam si fortè nucem dejecerat Eurus.

Juv. l. 4. Sat. 11.

{107:1} Philosoph. Transact. vol. III, num. xl, p. 802.