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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 2323 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.

John Bostock translation

Numerous varieties of the coniferæ supply us with tar, and Pliny is in error in deriving it solely from the torch-tree, the Pinus mugho of Linnæus.

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