12 INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES. 



fiifl: appear ifTuing out of the cells fix-legged and winglefs^ 

 and are amazingly adive and lively ; each cell contains about a 

 hundred ; the eggs they proceed from are lodged in the cells 

 in a deep-red liquor. Thefe arc the females. The iTjales are 

 winged, and are not in proportion to the females more than 

 one to five thoufand, but they are four or five times their fize. 

 The eggs, and the liquor they are lodged in, give a mofi: beautiful 

 red. DOkSlor Roxburgh acknowleges, that the fubjedt from which 

 the materials of the cells is colle6ted is as yet unknown. 



Lac is brought over to Europe in three forms ; adhering to 

 the fiicks, with the cells and infeits; prepared in form of cakes;. 

 or in fmall grains, or feed lac^ which is the infe6t advanced into 

 zpupa ftate. This drug was once ufed in medicine, in diforders 

 of the gums, proceeding from colds or fcorbutic habits ; but the 

 iifes are now confined to the making of fealing wax, or for 

 dying. Gerard* gives a figure of a fiick of the tree, and the 

 lac adhering, and fuppofes it to be the Luchs oi Aviceji, the 

 Cancamum of Diofcorides. 



Imports. Pegu imports from Bengal great quantities of Indian goods, 



and fome European, efpecially hats. The coco palm does not 

 grow in Pegu^ the nut is therefore a confiderable import. Dam- 

 pier fliipped eleven thoufand, and five or fix hundred pounds 

 weight of fugar, as prefents for the king. 



River of Pegu. The river of Pegu arifes in the province of Tunan, in China, 

 paffes through the upper part of the kingdom of Siam, and 

 forces its way through a great chain of mountains in about Lat. 

 ao" 32', which run from north to eaft, dividing Siajn from Pegu ; 



City. here it affumes the name of that kingdom. The capital city 



*P. 1534. 



ftands 



