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growing fomewhat foftifh by Heat, mixed with 
black Sand, of a black Colour, and weaker Scent. 
This Sort is the more common, but the firft is 
better, which ought to be free from Mixture, in- 
flammable, by Heat foon growing foft, and of -a 
fweet pleafant and ftrong Smell, efpecially when 
it is burnt. It is brought from Candy , and other 
Hands of the Archipelago . The ancient Greeks were 
not acquainted with it. 
In the Summer-Time it exudes out of the Leaves 
of a Shrub, which is called Ciftus Ladanifera , flore- 
pur pur eo^ Cor . Injt. R. H. 19. Ladanum Creticum y 
Prof. Alpin. Exot. 88. M. Tour ne fort mentions an- 
other Species of it (if it may be fo called) differing 
only from the preceding in the Largenefs of its 
Flowers, which he diftinguifhes, Ciftus Ladanifera , 
Orient alis^ flore purpureo majore , Cor. Inft. R.H. 19. 
This laft grows in Pontus , and the other is very 
common in fome Parts of Candy. In the Time of 
Diofcorides Ladanum was gathered after two diffe- 
rent Ways. He tells us that when Goats browfe 
upon the Leaves, the vifcous juice which ouzes 
out of them, flicks and gathers by Degrees upon 
their Beards and the Hair of their Legs, which is 
afterwards taken off by Combs. The other Me- 
thod was by drawing a Rope over the Shrubs, and 
fo colle&ing the Exudation. But in the Days of 
Bellonius it was gathered, and is flill according to 
M. Pournefort , by a particular Sort of Inftrument, 
which the Greeks inhabiting Candy term 
This Inftrument is fomething like a Rake without 
Teeth, having many leathern Straps or Belts fatten- 
ed to it, which they fweep backward and forward 
over the Leaves of the Shrub, and the refinous 
Moifture, by this Means adhering to them, is af- 
terwards fcraped off with Knives. The gathering 
it in this Manner is a very laborious Employment, 
being 
