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take a handful of the fmalleh pieces, found at the bot- 
tom of the balket where the myrrh was packed, and 
throw them into a plate, and juft cover them with w^ater 
a little w^arm ; the myrrh will remain for fome time with- 
out viftble alteration, for it diflblves flowly ; but the gum 
will fw'ell to five times its original fize, and appear fo 
many white fpots amidft the myrrh. 
The pieces fent you are, N° i. Virgin Troglodyte 
myrrh. N° 2. The worft fort of Troglodyte myrrh, 
called cancabs, N° 3. Opocalpafum from the myrrh- 
country. 
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