A Crack in the Edge of the World
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It was a kind of mint, its leaves highly aromatic and its tiny flowers attractive enough for a nosegay. Now properly called Clinopodium douglasii, it was given this name by the nineteenth-century Scots botanist David Douglas, the man who also gave us the Douglas fir and many types of primrose. He had been commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society to collect plants to bring back to London, and he traveled widely along the Pacific Coast searching for specimens; but he met an early and inappo...site death in Hawaii after falling into a hole and being gored by a bull that had fallen into it first.
In 1776, when a party of Spaniards journeyed north from their local capital of Monterey and came across this fertile and sheltered spot, they thought of the pretty green plant as little short of miraculous. They took their cue from the local Miwok Indians, who seemed to use the plant for all sorts of cures, and by all accounts were delightfully healthy as a result. The Indians infused it into teas and decocted it into tisanes, they prepared poultices, munched it as a breath freshener, rubbed it on their skins to ward off wild animals, or wore it in their hair for cosmetic effect.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It was a kind of mint, its leaves highly aromatic and its tiny flowers attractive enough for a nosegay. Now properly called Clinopodium douglasii, it was given this name by the nineteenth-century Scots botanist David Douglas, the man who also gave us the Douglas fir and many types of primrose. He had been commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society to collect plants to bring back to London, and he traveled widely along the Pacific Coast searching for specimens; but he met an early and inappo...site death in Hawaii after falling into a hole and being gored by a bull that had fallen into it first.
In 1776, when a party of Spaniards journeyed north from their local capital of Monterey and came across this fertile and sheltered spot, they thought of the pretty green plant as little short of miraculous. They took their cue from the local Miwok Indians, who seemed to use the plant for all sorts of cures, and by all accounts were delightfully healthy as a result. The Indians infused it into teas and decocted it into tisanes, they prepared poultices, munched it as a breath freshener, rubbed it on their skins to ward off wild animals, or wore it in their hair for cosmetic effect.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Simon Winchester to read onlineMoreLess
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