[668] See Unger and Kotsehy, Die Insel Cypern, Wien, 1865. 424.
[669] Heldreich (and Orphanides) Nutzpflanzen Griechenlands, Athen, 1862, 60.
[670] Berichte der deutschen chem. Gesellsch. 1876. 316.
[671] Consul Cumberbatch, Report on Trade of Smyrna for 1871.—Raki, derived from the Turkish word sâqiz, for mastich, which, strange to say, would appear to have its home on the Baltic. In the vocabularies of the Old-Prussian idiom “sachis” is found meaning resin.—Blau, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Gesellsch., xxix. 582.
[672] Powell, Economic Products of the Punjab, Roorkee, 1868. 411.
[673] Guibourt, Hist. d. Drog. iii. (1850) 458; Armieux, Topographie médicale du Sahara, Paris, 1866. 58.
[674] Genesis xii. 6, where the word is rendered in our version plain.
[675] Further historical information on the Terebinth may be found in Hehn’s Kulturpflanzen und Hausthiere, Berlin, 1877. 336.
[676] Unger u. Kotschy, die Insel Cypern, 1865. 361. 424.
[677] Revision du groupe des Anacardiacées. Paris, 1869. 150. Plate iii. shows the resiniferous ducts of a branch two years old.