[644] Ramusio Viaggi, 1613, i. p. 342.
[645] Geschichte der Farberkunst. Stendal, 1780, 8vo, p. 69.
[646] Anleitung zur Technologie, fourth edit. p. 123. I can now add, that Roso, in Memorie della Societa Italiana, Verona, 1794, 4to, vii. p. 251, quotes also the edition per Francesco Rampazetto, 1540, 4to.
[647] Itinerarium Benjaminis, Lugd. Bat. 1633, 8vo.
[648] Du Cange quotes a diploma of the emperor Frederick II., dated 1210, and under the word Tintoria, a diploma of Charles II. king of Sicily.
[649] Ramusio, i. p. 323.
[650] Totius Belgii Descript. Amst. 1660, 12mo, i. p. 242.
[651] [They both belong to the same genus but are specifically distinct, the species cultivated in India being principally the Indigofera tinctoria, and that in America the Indigofera anil.]
[652] This work has been several times printed. It is also in Barcia Historiadores primitivos de las Indias Occidentales. Madrid, 1749, fol. vol. i. At p. 61, we find among the productions of the above island, minas de cobre, anil, ambar, &c. An English translation in Churchill’s Collection, ii. p. 621, renders these words mines of copper, azure, and amber.
[653] Encyclop. vol. xxix. p. 548.