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A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries
A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries Author:John Crawfurd Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3The perfumed wood is found in greatest perfection in the mountainous country to the east of the gulf of Siam, inclnding Camboja and Cochin-China, between the 8th und 14th degrees of N. lat... more ». It is found, however, although of inferior quality, as far north as Sylhet, in Bengal, and textit{as far south as the Malay peninsula and Sumatra ; and in all this wide extent the tree, a tall forest one, ia probably either the same or of the same natural family. Castanheda mentions its existence in Campar, on the eastern side of Sumatra, and opposite to Malacca. " It (Campar)," saya he, " hau nothing but forests which yield aloes-wood, called in India Calambuco (kalambak). The trees which produce it are large, and when they are old they are cut down and the aloes- wood taken from them, which is the heurt of the tree, and the outer part is agila. Uoth these woods are of great price, but especially the Calambuco, which is rubbed in the hands, yielding an agreeable fragrance ; the agila does so when burned.'* AGNO-GRANDE, one of the largest of the rivers of the island of Luzon. It has its source in the province of Abra, near its confines with that of Nueva Viscaya, and in the highest valley of the Cordillera of Caraballos, in lat. 16" 49', and long. 321° 50'. After receiving some twenty affluents, and pursuing a tortuous course through a mountainous country, it passes through the province of Pangasinan, and disembogues in the deep gulf of Lingayen, on the western coast. In its course the Agno-Grande expands into the formation of several lakes. The moat remarkable of these is that of Ladiavin, in the district of San Carlos, which abounds in fish, especially in that called the dalag, a large article of trade in the Philippines. During the season of the rains, another lake of great extent is formed by the overflowing of th...« less