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into two Parts, as if it were cut through the Mid- 
dle. It is tranfparent, denfe, glutinous, and fat, 
and when laid in a warm Place, a Moifture exudes 
from it in white Tears. 
The third is black, of a dark reddifh Colour 
within, glutinous, and tailing like a Mixture of 
Frankincenfe and the Gum of Cherry-Trees. 
The fourth has likewife a black Colour, but within 
a brownifh Yellow, or fometimes Purple. It is 
very tranfparent, foft, and glutinous, like the Gum 
of the Cherry-Tree, and has the fame Talle. 
The fifth has a Colour and Talle like the preced- 
ing, but within it is variegated with pale or white 
Spots. 
The fixth is pale or white, in oblong Grumes of 
a moderate Bignefs, compofed of many long, con- 
creted Drops. This has a bitter unpleafant Talle, 
and more acrid than all the other Sorts. 
Samuel Bale , in his Pharmacologia , defcribes two 
Sorts of Bdellium. “ The firfb, fays he, is aSub- 
“ fiance between a Gum and a Refin, fat, like 
Wax, tenacious, glutinous, of a ferruginous Co- 
* c lour tending to Black, fomething like Myrrh, 
<c which it reiembles in Talle and Smell. It is 
46 brought from Arabia , Media , and India. The 
“ fecond is a refinous Subllance, hardifh, blackilh, 
“ and friable, in concreted Drops, with the Talle and 
“ Smell of the former. It is brought from Guinea ” 
Peter Pomet , in his Hillory of Drugs, obferves, 
that many Sorts of Gum are often found in the 
Shops under the Name of Bdellium. Sometimes a 
Refin brought from America , called Anime , which 
flows from a Tree named Courbaril ; fometimes the 
Re fin of another Tree named Caninga or Caffia ca- 
ryophyllata ; fometimes the Refln of the Cojtus cor - 
ticofus , which he calls Gum Alouch *, or others not 
fo well known. 
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