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SELECT SPECIMENS OF NATURAL HISTORY, COLLECTED IN Travels to discover the Source of the NILE, IN EGYPT, ARABIA, ABYSSINIA, AND NUBIA.

ΑΙΕΙ ΦΕΡΕΙ ΤΙ ΛΙΒΥΗ ΚΑΙΝΟΝ

Arist. Hist. Anim. Lib. 8.]

VOL. V.

“AND HE SPAKE OF TREES, FROM THE CEDAR-TREE THAT IS IN LEBANON, EVEN UNTO THE HYSSOP THAT SPRINGETH OUT OF THE WALL: HE SPAKE ALSO OF BEASTS, AND OF FOWL, AND OF CREEPING THINGS, AND OF FISHES.”

1 KINGS, chap. iv. ver. 33.

EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY J. RUTHVEN, FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON.

M.DCC.XC.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIFTH VOLUME.

INTRODUCTION, P. i

OF PLANTS, SHRUBS, AND TREES.

Papyrus, P 1

Balessan, Balm, or Balsam, 16

Sassa, Myrrh, Opocalpasum, 27

Ergett Y’dimmo, 34

Ergett el Krone, 35

Ensete, 36

Kol-quall, 41

Rack, 44

Gir Gir, or Gesh el Aube, 47

Kantuffa, 49

Gaguedi, 52

Wanzey, 54

Farek, or Bauhinia Acuminata, 57

Kuara, 65