Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 5

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Author

Bruce, James, 1730-1794

Title

Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.

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Produced by Chris Curnow, Wayne Hammond and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QH: Science: Natural history

Subject

Plants -- Egypt

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Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 57962

Release Date

September 24, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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 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.
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.Of PLANTS, SHRUBS, and TREES.
5. 5.PAPYRUS.
6. 6.BALESSAN, BALM, or BALSAM.
7. 7.SASSA, MYRRH, and OPOCALPASUM.
8. 8.ERGETT Y’DIMMO.
9. 9.ERGETT EL KRONE.
10. 10.ENSETE.
11. 11.KOL-QUALL.
12. 12.RACK.
13. 13.GIR GIR, or GESHE EL AUBE. — Male-flower described. — Female-flower described.
14. 14.KANTUFFA.
15. 15.GAGUEDI.
16. 16.WANZEY.
17. 17.FAREK, or BAUHINIA ACUMINATA.
18. 18.KUARA.
19. 19.WALKUFFA.
20. 20.WOOGINOOS, or BRUCEA ANTIDYSENTERICA.
21. 21.CUSSO, BANKESIA ABYSSINICA.
22. 22.TEFF.
23. 23.Of Quadrupeds.
24. 24.RHINOCEROS.
25. 25.HYÆNA.
26. 26.JERBOA.
27. 27.FENNEC.
28. 28.ASHKOKO.
29. 29.BOOTED LYNX.
30. 30.Of BIRDS.
31. 31.NISSER, or GOLDEN EAGLE.
32. 32.BLACK EAGLE.
33. 33.RACHAMAH.
34. 34.ERKOOM.
35. 35.ABOU HANNES.
36. 36.MOROC.
37. 37.SHEREGRIG.
38. 38.WAALIA.
39. 39.TSALTSALYA, or FLY.
40. 40.EL ADDA.
41. 41.CERASTES, or HORNED VIPER.
42. 42.BINNY.
43. 43.CARETTA, or SEA-TORTOISE.
44. 44.Of PEARLS.
45. 45.INDEX .
46. 46.ERRATA.
47. 47.FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber’s Note:

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