Note 006
The aromatics, especially the thus, or frankincense, of Arabia, occupy the xiith book of Pliny. Our great poet (Paradise Lost, l. iv.) introduces, in a simile, the spicy odors that are blown by the north- east wind from the Sabaean coast: -

- Many a league,
Pleased with the grateful scent, old Ocean smiles.
(Plin. Hist. Natur. xii. 42.)

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