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crafy, We Were in great fear of not being aftife to return, a3 

 the reader will have feen in our voyage. Particularly) I did 

 not obferve any of the green fat, ib well known to our epi- 

 cures, nor indeed any fat at all. When roafled, k tafted to 

 me much like old veal new killed. It is only an inhahitanc 

 of the mouth of the Gulf. They fcldorn come up the length 

 of Mocha ; when they do, they are few in number, are pro* 

 bably fick, and not able to bear the agitation of the waves 

 from the fouth-weflers. 



The Egyptians dealt largely with Rome in this elegant; 

 article of commerce. Pliny tells us, the cutting them for 

 fmeering or inlaying, was firfc praAifed by Garvilios Pollio, 

 from which we would prefume that the Bxmians were ig- 

 norant of the Arabian and Egyptian arc of feparating the 

 lamina by fire, placed in the infide of the {hell when the 

 meat is taken out ; for thefe fcales, though they appear 

 perfectly diftinct and feparate, do yet adhere, and oftener 

 break than fplit where the mark of feparaeion may be 

 feen diftinct. Martial * fays, that beds were inlaid with it. 

 Juvenalf , and Apuleius, in his tenth Book mentions that the 

 Indian bed was all over mining with tortoife-iliell in the 

 outfxde, and fwelling with fluffing of down within. The im- 

 menfe ufe made of it in Rome may be gueiTed by what we 

 learn from Velieius Paterculus J, who fays, that when Alex- 

 andria was taken by Julius Ccefar, the magazines, or ware- 

 houfes, were fo full of this article, that he propofed to have 

 jmade it the principal ornament of his triumph, as he did 



ivory 



* Mart. lib. xii. and lxvli. epig. | juv. fat. si. -J: Veil. Pst. lib. ii. cap. 56. 



