They Then Fill The Pit
Almost Full Of The Dried Salt Mud, And Pour On Sea-Water Till It Stands
Two Or Three Inches Above The Top Of The Mud.
This sea-water drains
through the mud, carrying the salt along with it from the mud as well as
its own, and runs out into the jar much-saturated with salt; which is
afterwards procured by boiling.
Sec.4. Of the famous Medicinal Root, called Hu-tchu-u.
Having last year seen, in a newspaper, some account of a singular root,
brought from China by Father Fontaney, I shall inform you that I have
seen this root since my arrival at Chuaan. It is called Hu-tchu-n[333]
by the Chinese, and they ascribe to it most wonderful virtues, such as
prolonging life, and changing grey hair to black, by using its infusion
by way of tea. It is held in such high estimation as to be sold at a
great price, as I have been told, from ten tael up to a thousand, or
even two thousand tael-for a single root; for the larger it is, so much
the greater is its fancied value and efficacy: But the price is too high
to allow me to try the experiment. You will find it mentioned in the
Medecina Sinica of Cleyer, No. 84; under the name of He-xeu-ti,
according to the Portuguese orthography. It is also figured in the 27th
table of the plants which Mr Pettier had from me.
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