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into pieces of the fize of a filbert, in order 

 that they may be dried and tranfported with 

 more eafe. They confider it as an excel- 

 lent antidote* Thefe two kinds of galega 

 ^re cuhivated in the province of Xmjy^ 

 and the merchants of the city of ^^epeh 

 carry on a trade in them. 



Gamboge. 



THIS is a refinous gummy juice, of a 

 yellow colour, extracted drop by drop on 

 incifion, from a prickly flirub, which rifes 

 to a confiderable height, and climbs round 

 other trees like ivy. The beft kind is brit- 

 tle, hard^ high-coloured, of an infipid tafte 

 at firft, and then ftiarpifli, inflammable, and 

 capable of being, in a great meafure, dif* 

 folved in fpirits ef wine. This gum, which 

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