a town in Sicily, situated on a high rock, and eighty-eight miles south of Messina. A colony from the isle of Naxos settled at the foot of Ætna, at no great distance from the shore, and at about a league or a league and a half from the present situation of Taormina. Dionysius the tyrant attacked this colony, and either took or set fire to their city. The inhabitants retired to the rocks of Mount Taurus, among which they found a tract of ground sufficiently level and secure, and of sufficient ex-

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1 Terra japonica is the dried extract of acacia catechu, and obtained at Kanhauna in Hindustan. The name catechu means in the native language the juice of a tree. Dr Thomson says it is composed of:

- Tannin..................................................54.5 - Peculiar extractive matter..............................34 - Mucilage..................................................6.5 - Insoluble matter, chiefly sand and lime..............5

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