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Moreouer,there is gathered out from the Rofins as from FrankincenftTp ~i — *Si 



i Latine Puligo ; in Greeke,**" and in Englifh, Blacke/which ferueth form? • fmoke > Ci ' 

 c the eie lids, and cure the fretting fores of the corners of theeies and aifr. n " that tautL 



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all,but the fame which (erueth for Printers to print their bookes with, that is to fa *? ?**'*- 



or congealed fmoke,and other things added 



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Of Pitch and Tar. 

 The manner of 'drawing forth of Pitch. 



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Out of the fatteft wood of the Pine tree changed into the Torch Pine, is drawne Pitch bv f 

 fire. A place mult be paued with (tone, or feme other hard marr*, a i;«.i-i.:»i.„..T D J ffo "B 



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Thep!acebeingthusprepared,theclouenwoodoftheTorchPinemuftbefe\vpriohtTn?« 



This liquor is called in Greeke 



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lome and earth : and great heed mull be taken.Icaft there be any cleft or chinke remaioinS 

 a hole left in the top of the furnace, thorow which the fire may be put in.and the flaraeandfmo 

 may pafie ouer : when the fire burneth the Pitch runneth forth, fir ft the thin, and then the thicker 

 tu.,i .«*it_i .„•- •„ . :in Latine,/*/*.- in Englifh,Pitch,and the raoifturc,cueD the 



_ p.v.-:-- v n y in his tG.bookt, ii. chapter, Cedria: There isboyledin 



Europe,faith he,from the Torch Pine a liquid Pitch vfed about (hips, and leruing for many other 

 purpofes j the wood being clouen is burned with fire, and fet round about the furnaces on eiwy 

 fide,after the manner of making Charcoles : the fir A liquor runneth through the gutter I ike waten 

 (this in Syria is called Cedria^ which is of fo great vertue, as in -(Egypt the bodies of dead meow 

 preferued being all couered ouer with it) the liquor following being now thicker, is made Pitch. 

 But Diofcorides writeth , That Cedria •• «<•••»"»—'* «* •**<* —- • rvj„. • — — a -—-.j. o.k — 



drawne out of the Torch tree by force 



da .the Italians, Peceliquida: in high 



foudire: in Spanifh,P^x liquida : certaine A 



And of this when it is boylcd is made a harder Pitch : this is named in Greeke, fif«»«inLa- 

 iinttAridapx ftcca Pix : of diuers, »»xW«» as though they (hould fay, Iterata Pix, or Pitch iterated : 

 becaufeitis boy led thefecond time. A certaine kinde hereof being made clammie or glewing is 

 named e$n*r. in fhops,P/* naualis y ox Ship Pitch : in high Dutch, ©atfpn low Dutcb.jSMWfltWtt 

 in lulhm,Peeeficc4: in ¥tcnch y Poixfeche : in Spanifh,P« feca : in Englifh,Stone Pitch. 



is gathered of the great Cedar tree, and nametb tbe liquor 

 of fire, mnm *>#«.- that is,that which the Latinescall tixlm. 



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againft inflammations of the Almonds of the throat, and the uvula, and likewife the Squioci , . 



ing outwardly applied. r« if it be 



Itisaremcdie for mattering eareswrithoyle ofRofes : it healeth the biting? of Serpent , 



beaten with fait and applied. vfwelliDg* 



With an equall portion ofwax it taketh away foule ilfauoured nailes,it waftetnaway 



of the kernels,and hard fwellings of the mother and fundament. . -• Acting vl- 



With barly meale and a boies vrinc it confumeth wo** , or the Kings euill : it » a,c 



cers,ifit be laid vnto them with btimftone,and tbe barke of the Pitch TreCjOrwiWDran'^ 

 if.-k„-.- ..j -.t_ ^_ •. 't_. /•. '_j j-.i.-.-«f ^wwh chops or uw ,u 



If it be mixed with fine Frankincenfe, and a cerote made thereof, it healeth chops 



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th wound me 

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u« c *im «wn hard fwellings : it ripens and maketb matt- 

 inflammations of kernels : it filleth vp hollow vlcers, and 



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fet downe nothing thereof, for that no man in oar age will cafily vouchfafe *^aki n | pof* 



There isalfomadeofPitchacongealedfmoke or blacke, which femeth tot tne 

 as that ofthe Rofins doth. 



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