who had fecne it , and thofe that at this day that have 

 feenc them in the Eaft , fay as much. Asalfo the holy 

 Scripture calles the place where the Balme thickens, 

 Vine >tEngmdd<j) for the refcmblance it hath to vine, 

 At the Indies I have feene the tree from whence they 

 drawj:he Balme , which is as bigge as a poungarnet 

 tree,Tnd fome thing ncere thefafhion and if my me- 

 moryfailesmenot, it hath nothing common with the 

 v * lie 3 although that Strabo writes, that the ancient tree 

 of Balme, was of the bignes of a poungarnet tree. But 

 in their accidents and operations, their liquors are-a 

 like, as like wife they be in their admirable (mails 5 and 

 in the cure arid healing of wounds, in colour and fub- 

 ftance, feeing they report of other Balmes that there is" 

 fbme white, vermilion, greene, and blacke, the which 

 is likewife feene in that of the Indies. And as they drew 

 forth the ancient in cutting and making incifions m 

 [ the barke,to caufe the liquor to diftill out , fo do they 

 I with that at the Indies, although it diftilks in greater a- 

 boundance. And as in the ancient there isonekinde 

 which is pure, the which they call Of^al/amum^hich 

 bcithevery tcarcs that diftill, fo as there is another 

 fort which is not fo exquifite , the which they drawe 

 from thebarke and leaves drained and boiled on the 

 fire,the which they call Xilobalffammn, The likeis alfb 

 in the Indian Balmes ; there is one pure that diftilles 

 from the tree, and others that the Indians draw out by 

 (training and boiling the leaves and wood , yea , they 

 do fophifticate and augment it with other liquors , to 

 make it increafe. I It is not without reafon they call it 

 Balme, forintrutnitisfo, (although it be not of the 

 famekinde of the ancient, J yet it is much eftecmcd, 

 and (liouid be more, if the great aboundance were not 



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