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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.
James Bruce
256 pages~5 hr 6 min read50 chaptersFree this month
Gathered on the long search for the source of the Nile, these are the plants Bruce brought home: papyrus, the balm called balsam, myrrh, and the great ensete of the Abyssinian highlands. James Bruce describes shrubs and trees few Europeans had seen. Part botany, part travelogue, it carries the reader deep into African wilds.
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- 1SELECT 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.
- 2CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4Of PLANTS, SHRUBS, and TREES.
- 5PAPYRUS.
- 6BALESSAN, BALM, or BALSAM.
- 7SASSA, MYRRH, and OPOCALPASUM.
- 8ERGETT Y’DIMMO.
- 9ERGETT EL KRONE.
- 10ENSETE.
- 11KOL-QUALL.
- 12RACK.
- 13GIR GIR, or GESHE EL AUBE.
- 14Male-flower described.
- 15Female-flower described.
- 16KANTUFFA.
- 17GAGUEDI.
- 18WANZEY.
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