10G 



ORIENTAL COMMERCE. [Gulph of Persia. 



is naturally smooth and even between the holes ; when fresh broken, it is 

 somewhat bright and glossy, but when powdered, it is of a browner colour; 

 its taste is acrid, nauseous, and rather bitter, accompanied with a faint dis- 

 agreeable smell. Smyrna Scammony is in compact ponderous pieces, of a 

 black colour, harder and of a stronger smell and taste than the other kind, 

 and full of impurities. The former sort is sometimes to be procured in 

 Persia and in India. It should be chosen so as easily to crumble between 

 the fingers, glossy when fresh broken, of a grey colour, which becomes of 

 a whitish yellow, when touched with a wet finger ; and when dissolved in 

 proof spirit, it should leave no dregs. With water it should form a greenish 

 milky fluid. Reject that which is black, solid, or impure. Freight 16 Cwt. 

 to a ton. 



Worm Seed are small, light, oval seeds, of the Santonirum, composed 

 of a number of thin membraneous coats, of a greenish yellow colour, with a 

 cast of brown. These seeds easily crumble, by rubbing between the fingers, 

 into a fine chaffy kind of substance. Their smell is of the wormwood kind) 

 moderately strong, and not very agreeable ; taste bitter, and somewhat acrid. 

 Worm Seed should be chosen fresh, inclining to a greenish colour, with a 

 sharp, bitter, disagreeable taste, and having as small a mixture of stalks and 

 leaves as possible. The Turkey or Aleppo sort is most esteemed in England. 

 They are an article of trade from Persia and Arabia to Bombay and Surat. 



SEVTION XL 

 COASTS OF PERSIA, SCINDY, AND GUZERAT. 



THE Coast of Persia extends from the Gulph to Cape Monze, 

 having the following towns — Jasques, Posmee, Chewabad, Gutter Bay, 

 Guadel, Sommeany, besides many smaller. 



JASQUES. — This town is situated at the bottom of a bay, formed 

 by Cape Jasques to the W., in latitude 25 c 38' N., longitude 58* 

 10' E., and a low point to the E., where vessels may lie secure from all but 

 S. winds ; near the town is a small river, on which there is a bar, over 

 which vcsseli drawing less than 10 feet water may go, and lie laud-locked 



