myrrhae

Updated: May 13, 2025

This latitude of 5° S. would lead to Cape St Roquo on the coast of Brazil; but the indications given by Americus during his several voyages are exceedingly vague and uncertain. The sun on the 27th of June has just passed to the south side of the equator, and is in the tropic of cancer on the 23d of March. Called in the text myrrh-apples, Poma myrrhae, perhaps meant to imply mirabolans.

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