ws on n account of the ‘small “detached! pieces into which the bark was usually 
when it came into the hands ‘of the merchants ; but the seventy, in conformity 
» Bi ve iti in the singular | number, and with. a single 
ray > ae ut shongh the Phoenicians -communi- 
aE. Be 
ey is s only. a different’ ialect, the ‘verb vite viggnifiés to strip any thing of : 
its covering a ad thence was naturally applied i in a substantive form to denote the bark 
“of a tree separated from the trunk: and the high value which was set on the aromatic 
: brous ae boa Temetest. Bs see of the these gots earthy. sieht as aad 
genus it is apy peed _ 
“ The ope has often reason a to lament that peripnaa and merchants have 
