[658] The ducat being reckoned at 9s. 2d.
[659] For further particulars respecting the history of Scio, the Maona, and the trade of the Genoese in the Levant, see Hopf in Ersch and Grubber’s Encyclopädie, vol. 68 (Leipzig, 1859) art. Giustiniani; also Heyd Colonie commerciali degli Italiani in Oriente i. (1866).
[660] Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses mémorables trouvées en Grèce, etc. Paris, 1554. liv. ii. ch. 8. p. 836.
[661] Voyage into the Levant, i. (1718) 285.
[662] Voyage dans l’Empire Othoman et la Perse, ii. (Paris, 1801) 132-136.
[663] At Athens the mercury was for a short time at -10° C. (14° F.) In Scio, where the frost was probably quite as severe, though we have no exact data, the mischief to the lentisks varied with the locality, trees exposed to the north or growing at considerable elevations, being killed down to the base of the trunk, while those in more favoured positions suffered destruction only in some of their branches.
[664] Storia dei Musulmani di Sicilia, iii. (1872) 787.
[665] Flückiger, Documente zur Geschichte der Pharmacie, Halle, 1876. 31.
[666] Ibid. 41. 65.
[667] Thus in the London Pharmacopœia of 1632, mastich enters into 24 of the 37 different kinds of pill, besides which it is prescribed in troches and ointments.