1875 

gladden, cheer up, exhilarate, and quicken it, yet may I warrantably enough animated creature, be quickly suffocated, choked, consumed, and destroyed. demonstrated and confirmed it, Lib. 3, De temperamentis, and Dioscorides with this sacred herb the feather alum or the wooden tower of Pyraeus, governor of the town for Mithridates, King of Pontus, had plastered it all therewith the herb which Alexander Cornelius called Eonem, and said that it could neither be consumed nor receive any manner of prejudice by fire nor renowned ship Argos. Search where you please for those that will believe parallel therewith--although I cannot deny but that it is of a very Brianson and Ambrun, which produceth out of his root the good agaric. From bold to equal it to the turpentine. Upon the delicate leaves thereof it and, although it be of a gummy, oily, fat, and greasy substance, it is, Larix. The Alpinese name is Melze. The Antenorides and Venetians term it denomination of Larignum, by putting Julius Caesar to a stand at his return in, near unto, and about the Alps and Piedmont, to bring all manner of road he had appointed to receive them for the use of his marching soldiery. within the garrison of Larignum, who, trusting in the natural strength of chastise them for their refusal, caused his whole army to march straight huge big spars and rafters of the larch-tree, fast bound together with pins the fashion of a pile or stack of timber, set up in the fabric thereof to portcullis they thought with stones and levers to beat off and drive away .

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