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'^ Tliei^ is no prohibition to its exportation hen 

 ^^ demand is inconfiderable. The Arsbs ftili take • 

 ^^ candies (about 670 lbs. J of it annually. The prsc< 

 '^^ is fo low that it will hardly pay freight, though fome years ago 

 *' large quantities were fold there at a high price.'" 



Note by the Secretary. 



There are feveral Sanfcrit terms familiarly known on this iide of 

 .India, which might be fuppofed to refer to the Cocculas indicus, 

 but which on examination prove to have nothing in conformity 

 with it except the found. That amongffi thefe, the words C^aWS 

 and C^(:<:d?/a are affixed to very different Subftances, as i§ noticed 

 by Dr. Wallich, will perhaps be molt fatisfadiorily fnewn by 

 the following account of them, extracted from origmal authorities. 

 €(koU, The Hindus enumerate in their medical works a clafs of eight fub- 

 flances, which they denominate the Aslita verga Or clafs of eight ^ 

 tbey are all roois,' and appear to come chiefly from Nepal and the 

 countries ikirting the Himalaya mountams; their properties are fup- 

 poled to correfpond, and they may be employed either feparate- 

 ly or coileCtively, as remedies m a great variety of morbid con- 

 ditions : their general virtues are. thus detailed: They are cool, 

 iweet, fattening, and aphrcdifiac, promotive of digeflion, fanative, 

 ladiferous land tonic; they are corretiive of the vitiated humors 

 or %vindj bile, and blood, curative of fever, and of great efficacy 

 in urinary and phthifical affections. They are feverally named 

 Jivaca, Riftiahha Mcda.Mahdvieda, Cdcolf, fjh'ira Cacoli, Riddhi, 

 and Yriddhi : they are probably tonic medicines of fome power 

 and at leafi: merit further invelligation : the fubftance amongll thefe 

 termed Cic(7//, is generally conneaed with the one fubfequent 

 to it in the above litt, ox C fair a Cif<?/f, and they are thus defcribed 



X Mr. \V. Harmgioii, Call«ttq,c c.i Castoms at iVlaaras informs me, ibat a yery heavy ^uljr 

 liaj beeu laid uj)en the drug, amouating almost (o a i)r«)iil!iitiea. 



