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by James Bruce
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 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.” EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY J. RUTHVEN, FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. M.DCC.XC.
CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.
INTRODUCTION.
Of PLANTS, SHRUBS, and TREES.
PAPYRUS.
BALESSAN, BALM, or BALSAM.
SASSA, MYRRH, and OPOCALPASUM.
ERGETT Y’DIMMO.
ERGETT EL KRONE.
ENSETE.
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, volume 5 (appendix).
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (378K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2018-09-24
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1730–1794
An adventurous Scottish explorer and writer, he became famous for tracing the Blue Nile to its source and turning years of dangerous travel into one of the great travel narratives of the 18th century.
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