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any cultivation, to a great height in all the 
fertile and watered countries of Nebia 
~ and Abyssinia; and in the gardens of 
Cairo and Rosetta, it may be seen in the 
rost beautiful perfection. Europe re- 
ceives almost as large a quantity of ta- 
moariods as of senna. The druggists of 
Rfarseilles have a particular method of 
preparing them, by which thejr purgative 
power is igerensed, and themselves ren- 
eered less harsh ang grating to the taste, 
than in the unprepared state. A consi- 
devabie portion of them i$ consumed in 
Egpyt, where the inhabitants i cally 
use them asa cocling medicine in fevers 
and sitnilar diseases, “mixed with common 
sugar or syrup, to sweeten them. 
‘Gum Aralic is the concrete juice dis- 
sling from a species of mimosa, growing 
Th Ur per Esypt, and the interior coum 
tries of Africa. Some trees of this 
Species: grow near Cairo, and the ca- 
ravans bring considerable quantities of 
ae drug to that place: Marseilles alone 
used formerly to receive from Alex- 
atte as much of this gum as was valued 
at 15,000/. every year. 
Gum Gedde differs but little from that 
gust described, and is the similar produce 
ef a tree of the same kind: it is brought 
from Nuhia by the caravans, and also from 
firabia by the way of Suez. The quanr- 
tity annually carried to Marseilles-used 
t6 be worth 20,c00/. 
Furkish Gum, is, like the above-men- 
tioned, a native of the nether parts of 
Africa, and is supposed to be produced 
by the very same tree that furnishes the 
common gum Arabic, from which it 
hittle differs, except in size and transpa- 
rency. ‘ 
Capal Gum, is exactly the same sub- 
stance as that called in the Levant trade 
Sandarach. This resin, generally used in 
Persia as wax, is obtained froma kind of 
thya, (named thya aphilla by Mr, Des- 
. at, in his Flora Atlantica), growing in 
Arabia and the south of Persia. ‘Tie 
Earopean merchants buy large quantities 
of 1 at the markets of Caio. - I am 
? possession of several ee each not 
s than two inches in-bulk,* in 
ich insects are enctosed, and among 
thers a fretting worm. 
Ammoniae, or Gum £ Imoniac, aresinous 
gnu, 3s procured by cutting a-eertain 
species of ferula growing spontaneously 
i the deserts of Libya, in Arabia, and 
in the exstern and southern parts of Per- 
sia. Iris brought partly by Jand to 
aire, and partiy by sea a to Suez, 
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Galke banum, a resinous gum, extracted 
from a plant of galbanum called the 
bubon, which bears its fruit in clusters, 
and grows without any culivations in the 
southern parts of Fgypt, as also in Arabia 
and Persia. It is brought to Cairo by 
the Red Sea. European dealers used 
formerly to receive great quantities of this 
drug at Marseilles, and some of the har- 
bours of Italy. 
Bdellium, a resinous gum of a reddish 
brown colour, comes from tlie southern 
parts of Persia, and from India, and 
may be had in abundance at Baydad and 
Cairo. 
Asafedita, the concrete sap of the 
root of a plant of the genus ferula, 
growing in Persia, Candahar, and - the 
northern parts of Indostan; it iS cars 
ried but m small quantities to Cairo, 
passing through Mascate, Mecca, and 
Sucz. The yearly importatien at Mav- 
seilles, by the way of Alexandria, used 
to be worth 2001. 
Gum Sagapenum. ‘This gum, of a resi- 
nous substance, very much resembles asa- 
feedita, and is also the sap of a plant of the 
genus ferula, growing in Arabia” and 
in the southern and eastern parts of 
Persia: the sagapenum is more frequent] y 
found at Bagdad than Cairo, and comes 
to us by the way of Alexandria, The 
merchants of that place send small quan- 
_tities.of it to Marseilles, and some of the 
Italian sea~ports. 
Sarcocof, or Flesh Gum, is said to be 
produced by a plant, or rather a shrub 
growing in the southern parts of Persia, 
and in Fthiopia and Arabia. Greater 
quantities of it are to be procured at 
_ Bagdad than at Cairo. 
Incense, frankincense. This perfume, 
used in religious ceremonies both by the 
moderns and the ancients, constitutes 
now, as in furmer times, a very prominent 
article of the trade of Egypt. It is car- 
ricd from Arabia and the eastern coast 
of Africa to Suez, and from thence to 
Cairo, from which city it is dispersed 
through all the provinces of the Ottoman 
empire, and every part of Exrope. Li- 
vorno, Trieste, and Venice, used to 
import considerable quantities, ad the 
portion received at’ Marseilles, partly 
in the shape of concrete drops, and partly 
in powder, amounted every year to about 
10,0002. 
Myrrh: This resinous aromatic abe 
stance comes with the caravans that 
arrive at Cairo from the interior parts of 
Africa: a great deal is consumed in 
Turkey, 
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