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tinue six months, wash so much-dirt, and Jodgeso much water 
“in the cut, that in the second year the tree has begun. to rot 
“and turn foul in that part, and the Myrrh is of a second quality; 
“ and sells in Cairo about a third cheaper than the first. .The 
“ Myrrh. also produced from gashes near the roots, and in the 
“ trunks of old trees, is of the second growth and, quality, and 
* sometimes worse. This, howeyer, ts. the good Myrrh of. the 
'“ Italian shops every where in Venice, It is of a black red foul 
‘* colour, solid, and heavy, Tosing nothing in weight, and’ easily 
‘* distinguished from ‘that of Arabia Felix. , The third and, worst 
_ © kind ‘is -gathered ‘from :old «wounds or gashes formerly made. in 
“old trees, or Myrrh that, passing unnoticed, ‘has hung upon the 
“ tree a whole year, of a black earth-like colour, heavy, with 
« little smell or bitterness.” (Phil, Trans, vel..65.)—Mr. Bruce 
also says, that sassa, gumds fraudulently mixed with the Myrrh. _ 
The ‘medicinal effects of Myirh are warm, -corroberant, and 
antiseptic ; it “has “also - ‘been “successfully employed _ in Pphthisical 
cases as a pectoral; and'though allied to some of the balsams, it is 
— to be more’ efficacious and less irritating to:the system, 
BS ie 
roa ‘Palvn (fruetus oleum expres) Pharm. Edinb. 
PALM ‘oil is produced chiefly from ‘the ‘Coes biutyracea, “thus 
amed from'the butter-like appearance’ df the oil which 
ite yields, © it is' well known, however, ‘that other tpalims fiirnish 
this unctuous substance, as the Elaeis-Guineensis’L: (see Jacquin) ; 
also'“* The palm-oil: tree” of Sloane, or Palma’ ‘dleosa’ of Hughes. 
To these we may add ithe Palma dactylifera ‘aguleata ‘fractu 
corallino major ‘of 'Batrere: (de la ‘France’ equinoxiale),and ‘the 
$pinous. palms (Palmiers- Avoira)»mentioned -by Aabler? ¢ Guiane 
— sietabaeg in a _— OTERO ae ommioliog, 2 ae 
‘In the S tar wef find nét not only: ‘a full detip. 
tidn'of the Cocos:butyracea, ‘on the authority of Mutis, but also an 
-account of the method used‘to ébtain the oil by the ai abate, of 
the warmer. ~~ of Anictica, where this palm is.a native. , 
