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GAMBIA

Volume 9 · 61 words · 1815 Edition

a large river of Negroland in Africa, running from east to west to the Atlantic ocean; it is supposed to be a branch of the Niger.

GAMBOGE is a concreted vegetable juice, partly of a gummy and partly of a resinous nature, chiefly brought in large cakes or rolls from Cambaja in the East Indies. See Chemistry and Materia Medica Index.