[Footnote 25: The camphire-tree grows in China and Japan;
but many hundred weight of those meaner sorts are exchanged
for a single pound of the more precious gum of Borneo and
Sumatra, (Raynal, Hist. Philosoph. tom. i. p. 362 - 365.
Dictionnaire d'Hist. Naturelle par Bomare Miller's
Gardener's Dictionary.) These may be the islands of the
first climate from whence the Arabians imported their
camphire (Geograph. Nub. p. 34, 35. D'Herbelot, p. 232.)]