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nothing') ; but it is learnedly and elaborately urged, 

 that it must be the true Indian spikenard, because it 

 differs only in the length of the stalks from the nard 

 of Gar^ias; which, according to him, is the only 

 species of nardus exported trom India, and which re- 

 sembles a dried specimen seen by Rumphius, and 

 brought, he says, among other countries, from 

 Mackrariy or the ancient Gadros'ia ; the very country 

 where, according to Arrian, the true nard grew in 

 abundance: for " the Vhenicians" he says, " collected 

 " a plentiful store of it ; and so much of it was tram- 

 " pled under foot by the army, that a strong per- 

 <e fume was diffused on all sides of them." Now 

 there is a singular coincidence of circumstances ; for 

 our Andropogon was discovered by the scent of its 

 roots, when they were crushed by the horses and 

 elephants in a hunting-party of the farA'suFUD- 

 daulahj so that, on the whole, ii must be the same 

 with' the plant mentioned by Arrian : but it may be 

 argued, I think, more conclusively, that a plant, 

 growing with great luxuriance in Gadros'ia, or Mack- 

 ran-, which the Doctor admits to be a maritime pro- 

 innce of Persia, could not possibly be the same with a 

 plant confined to remote par is of India ; so that, if 

 Garc.ias, Rump jit us, and Arrian be supposed to 

 have meant the same species of nard, it was evidently 

 different from that of Dioscoridrs and Gal ex. 

 The respectable writer, with whose opinions I make 

 so free, but from no other motive than a love of 

 truth, seems aware of a little geographical difficulty 

 from the western position of Macrdn \ for he first 



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