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n medicine. RosemaryRosmarius officinalisEurope, etcTops of plant afford an oil. Used in perfumery, medicine, etc. Sandal-wood or santal-woodSantalumIndiaYields an essential oil heavier than water. Used in perfumery. Winter-greenGaultheria procumbens.North AmericaThe plant affords an essential oil. Used in medicine, perfumery, and for flavoring. The most ancient oil-mills are those used for mashing the olive. They were used in Palestine at a very early date. Although Solomon, A. D. 1015, supplied Hiram with 20,000 baths of oil, in addition to the grain and wine, in return for the timber of cedar and timber of fir, yet the Phoenicians themselves were great cultivators of the olive and traders in oil. The means they used were the mill, such as we now call the Chilian, followed by a lever-press. The stones, bed-plates, and press-frames yet remain in the country to attest the fact. Olives were known in ancient Egypt, and their cultivation was imported thence into Greece. Ce