i6o OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



Spices; videlicet, Pepper (Piper nigrum) ; 

 Long Pepper, {Piper longuni) ; Cubebes (Cubeba 

 Linn. Mat. Med. 526) Cloves (Caryophylus 

 aromaticus), Cardamum {Amomum cardamo?num)^ 

 come from Cochin-China, Cambogia, and Siam. 



Sticklack from Pegu: The gum which 

 quite covers the (licks is clear and high colour- 

 ed. The lack from Vizapatnam is not fo good. 



Gumm Benjamin, or Benzoin, comes from 

 Sindi, and the Spice I/lands, in large chefts of 

 50 or 60 pounds weight, packed up in mats. 

 The beft looks like white marble. There is 

 likewife a coarfe kind, which is black and foft : 

 it is packed in chefts* 



Cambogia, Gamboge, or Gum-gutta, of a, 

 high yellow gold colour, from Cochin-China, 

 Cambogia, &c. in bundles. 



Santal (Santalum album) is fweet-fcented, 

 and comes from Suratte, where our Szvedijh 

 ftip the Gothic Lion (the firft that ever came 

 to that place from Sweden) bought, in 1750, 

 jfome of this wood for feven tell, and fold a 

 ereat deal of it at Canton ; the pekul at 1 5 



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