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[5] Though old Molly did not know it, just about the time she was speaking, some gentlemen began to examine the sallow bark with more attention than it had met with before. And they procured a medicine from it called salicine, which seems to have the same properties as the quinine, which is made from Jesuit’s bark.
[9] Little Mary’s friend Mr. Brown told her afterwards, that the only place in Europe where the climate and soil is sufficiently favourable to the palm for dates to ripen is Valencia; and that the palm-trees there had been originally planted for the purposes of the church.