. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . ord$, and liberal ideas. zS APPENDIX. Ofc \ •;»?. ;, j. u , ^^ BALESSAN, BALM, or BALSAM. THE great value fet upon this drag in the eaft re-mounts to very early ages ; it is coeval with the Indiatrade for pepper, and the beginning of it confequentlyloft in the darknefs j of the firft ages. We know fromfcripture, the oldeft, hiflory extant, as well as moft infallible,that the Ifhmaelitesj or Arabian carriers and merchants, traf-ficking with the India commodities into Egypt, brou
. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 : in five volumes . ord$, and liberal ideas. zS APPENDIX. Ofc \ •;»?. ;, j. u , ^^ BALESSAN, BALM, or BALSAM. THE great value fet upon this drag in the eaft re-mounts to very early ages ; it is coeval with the Indiatrade for pepper, and the beginning of it confequentlyloft in the darknefs j of the firft ages. We know fromfcripture, the oldeft, hiflory extant, as well as moft infallible,that the Ifhmaelitesj or Arabian carriers and merchants, traf-ficking with the India commodities into Egypt, brought withthem balm as part of the cargo with pepper ; but the pricethat they paid for Jofeph was filver, and not a barter withany of their articles of merchandife. Strabo alone, of all the ancients, hath given us the trueaccount of the place of its origin, Near tothis, that hiftorian fays, is the moft happy land of the Sabeans, and they are a very great people. Among thefe, frankincenfe, myrrh,and cinnamon grow, and in the coaft that is about Saba the bal(am alfo. Among the myrrh-trees behind Azab4 all « 4*. X %L& ur/t & London /?tiNi/li,/ 0,1 i ;.-n kt
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