Note 2339 — BOOK XVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FOREST TREES.
John Bostock translation
“Sartago.” Generally understood to be the same as our frying-pan. Fée remarks that this method would most inevitably cause the mass infusion to ignite; and should such not be the case, a coloured resin would be the result, coloured with a large quantity of carbon, and destitute of all the essential oil that the resin originally contained.