[Footnote 6: 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.)]