sg ' Dr. Blank’s Account of 
it appears from Arrian’s account, and from a Turkifli map 
of Perlia, that. this define lies in the middle of the ttaft of 
country between the ri.er Indus and the Perhan Gulph an 
within a few days match of the Arab, an or Erythraan ft.-. 
I would appear, that the Nard was found towards the eaft.m 
of it ■ foe Alexander was then directing his route to the 
leftward,' and the length of march thiou S h ‘he deftrt after- 
i c was verv great, as they were obliged to kill their beat 
: Ltdlnln lnfecuen'ce of tlfeir fuhfegnen, diftrefs Second y - 
though the accounts of the ancients concerning this plant are 
obfeure and defeftive, it is evident, it was a plan o 
order of grmi m ; for the term nri/b, lh often applied to it 
li appropriated by them to the fruftification of grants and 
orafles and feems to be a word of Greek original to denote 
ihe Jft excellent portion of theft plants, which are toe nroft 
ff-1 in the vegetable creation for the fuftenance of animal 
Ufe and nature has alio kindly made them the moft abundant 
111 n^rts of the habitable earth. The term faca is applied to 
phots' of the natural order verticillat*, m which there are 
toy fpecies of fragrant plants, and the lavender, which being 
,u indigenous one, affording a grateful perfume, was called 
NardJltalica by the Romans; but we never hnd the ter 
■a r.pd to thefe The poets, as well as the naturalifts, 
conftautly apply this latter term to the true IN ardus. Stati 
“Ss Ac Spikenard odarata anjia. Ovid, m men Honing * 
"tie of the materials of the Phoenix’s neft, calls it 
kvis arijh ; and a poem, afenbed to Lactantius, on 
. By the Erythraean Sea the ancients meant the northern part of the 
' . . r coa fts of Arabia and Perfia, and not, as tne 
OC T;’ W twh«U intern times, called the Red Sea. The ancient name 
would imply, what is, m 
of the Red Sea was Sinus Arabicus. fame 
