The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner • Paragraph 680
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Balm of Gilead (_Balsamodendron Gileadense_) belongs to scrub or half-desert regions. Cleopatra obtained plants from Jericho for her garden at Heliopolis. The Jews used to sell it regularly to the merchants of Tyre.