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1 Apparently meaning "boiled pitch."
2 See B. xxiv. c. 26.
3 This account has been borrowed from Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B is. c. ii. The modern method of extracting the resin of the pine is very similar.
4 There is no foundation whatever for this statement.
5 The pith of the pine cannot be separated from the wood, and, indeed, is not easily distinguished from it. Fée says that in some of these trees masses of resin are found in the cavities which run longitudinally with the fibres, and queries whether this may not be the "marrow" or "pith" of the tree mentioned by Pliny.
6 As a torch or candle, probably.
7 This division of the larch into sexes, as previously mentioned, is only fanciful, and has no foundation in fact. The result of this operation, Fée says, would be only a sort of tar.
8 See B. xxxv. c. 51. He alludes to the bitumen known as asphalt, bitumen of Judæa, mineral pitch, mountain pitch, malthe, pissalphate.
9 These particulars, borrowed from Theophrastus, are in general correct.
10 This is not the fact; the essential oil in which the resin so greatly abounds, becomes volatile with remarkable facility.
11 Most probably one of the varieties of the pine; but the mode in which Pliny expresses himself renders it impossible to identify it with any precision.
12 B. xv. c. 9.
13 The name borne also by the torch-tree.
14 See c. 76 of this Book.
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