"The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams."

The shops of medicine are supplied with resins, balsams, and essential oils; and the tar and pitch, for mechanical purposes, arc produced from these vegetable secretions.] 185 In sulphurous eddies round the weird dame Plays the light gas, or kindles into flame.

o' yours getting on, Nat?" Mr. Smith met the pleasantry coldly; the ailment referred to was one of some standing and had been a continual source of expense in the way of balsams and other remedies.

The pine and the spruce and the balsam trees said, 'We will give of our gums and balsams.'

Three hundred yards below Thor was a clump of balsams, a small thick patch that grew close to the edge of the miniature lake whose water crept around the farther end of the hollow.

Within two minutes he reached the edge of the balsams, and there he paused again.

In the edge of the balsams Thor had already found a hollow in the ground.

Not until they came to the edge of the plain that overlooked the lake and the balsams did they stop.

Now and then one of these higher movements of air would sweep gently downward and flow through the valley for a few moments in a great noiseless breath that barely stirred the tops of the balsams and spruce.

To Muskwa it was all a greenish golden haze below him; the depths seemed illimitable; the forest along the stream was only a black streak, and the parklike clumps of balsams and cedars on the farther slopes looked like very small bosks of thorn or buffalo willow.

At the end of that time he called Langdon to the edge of the clump of balsams.

" He entered the balsams and Langdon followed him.

"He hid the carcass in the balsams after he had filled himself," went on Bruce.

In the shade of the balsams Langdon wrote for a steady hour, frequently rising to establish new facts or verify others already discovered.

All that night Thor and Iskwao kept by themselves in the buffalo willow thickets and the balsams of the creek-bottom.

About the meadow were scattered little clumps of bushes and a few balsams and spruce, as if set there for ornamental purposes; and on one side there was a narrow, verdure-covered slide that sloped upward for a third of a mile, and at the top of which, unseen by Muskwa and Thor, a band of sheep were sleeping.

Muskwa wandered about, always near Thor, investigating the clumps of bushes, the dark shadows of the balsams and spruce, and the edge of the lake.

It was almost dark when they approached a clump of balsams red with the glow of a fire.

And pale-stemmed balsams all a-blow, On every garden-bed.

About a year after death the bones were cleaned, bleached, painted, wrapped in odorous balsams, placed in a wicker basket, and kept suspended from the door of their dwelling (Gumilla Hist.

Come, leave all the doctors; resort to the shops Which peddle pills, balsams, elixirs and drops; Each cures ev'ry malady whenever used, Altho' by base slander they're greatly abus'd.

Thus, it is well known that the creeping thistle is hurtful to oats, erigeron acre to wheat, scabiosa arvensis to flax, &c. Why are some resins odorous? Because they contain essential oil; some afford benzoic acid when heated, and these have been termed balsams; such as tolu balsam and benzoin.

The bark of some of them, as the hemlock and larch, is of great value in tanning, and from others are obtained the various kinds of pitch, tar, turpentine, resin and balsams,' The pines and firs have circles of branches in imperfect whorls around the trunk, and, as one of these whorls is formed each year, it is easy to calculate the age of young trees.

Height, 1 ft. Balsams.

There were her homely balsams to cure Max's ailments; true, he had never been ill, but he might be.