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TAB. CCLXXIII. 
BITUMEN succinum. 
Amber. 
Class 1. Combustibles. Order 2. Compound. 
Div. 1. Amorphous. 
Spec. Cuar. Bitumen in combination with Succinic 
Acid. 
Syn. Succinum electricum. Bernsten. Jinn. ed. 13. 
t., 3. pp. 108. 
Succinum durius, Europeeum; Succinum. Wal- 
ler. 2. 108. 
Karabe, Carabe, Succinum, Electrum, Glessum ; 
Ambra citrina, Sacal. Lemery Diction. 463. 
Succin. De Lisle, 2. 589. 
Succin, Ambre jaune ; Karabé. De Born. 2. 88. 
Bernstein. Emmerl. 2. 81. 
Petrole combiné avec I’Huile de Succin. Sciagr. 
2. 22. 
Ambre jaune. Daub. 30. 
Amber. Kirw. 2. 65. 
Succin. Hauy, 3. 327. 
Peruaps, for an anciently-known substance, Amber is as 
little understood as many more modern substances. Some 
consider it as a mineral oil with oxygen, or, as Mr. Par- 
kinson, an inspissated mineral oil. By others it has been 
thought either honey or wax indurated, though mostly 
judged to be an indurated vegetable gum or resin; and 
Mr. Patrin, among his arguments for its being honey, 
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