a kind of bark rolled up in long quills, thicker than cinnamon, and both outwardly and inwardly of a whitish colour, lightly inclining to yellow. It is the produce of a tall tree growing in great plenty in the lowlands in Jamaica and other American islands. The canella is the interior bark freed from an outward thin rough one, and dyed in the shade. The shops distinguish two sorts of canella, differing from one another in the length and thickness of the quills: they are both the bark of the same tree, the thicker being taken from the trunk, and the thinner from the branches. This bark is a warm pungent aromatic, not of the most agreeable kind, nor are any of the preparations of it very grateful.