[2337] See B. xxxiv. c. 20.
[2338] See B. xiv. c. [25], and B. xxiv. c. 22.
[2339] “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.
[2341] The terebinthine of the mastich, Fée says, is an oleo-resin, or in other words, composed of an essential oil and a resin.
[2342] Apparently meaning “boiled pitch.”
[2343] See B. xxiv. c. 26.
[2344] This account has been borrowed from Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. B ix. c. ii. The modern method of extracting the resin of the pine is very similar.
[2345] There is no foundation whatever for this statement.
[2346] The pith of the pine cannot be separated from the wood, and, indeed, is not easily distinguished from it. Fée says that in some of these trees masses of resin are found in the cavities which run longitudinally with the fibres, and queries whether this may not be the “marrow” or “pith” of the tree mentioned by Pliny.