These include sassafras,vanilla, wintergreen, cherry-tree bark, licorice root, black cherry and cane sugar.

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Getting its name from the sassafras tree root originally responsible for its unique flavour, root beer was an exclusively North American beverage until recently.

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They came, not for religious freedom, but to get rich from digging sassafras, a commodity prized in Europe as a cure for the clap.

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Its 17 period-style cottages are edged against the rainforest, providing treehouse-like views into the canopy of myrtle beech, sassafras, laurel and celery top pine trees.

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