(From the cedar tree). It is called the pitch and the resin of the great cedar tree, and it is the crude tears of the cedar. It has been supposed different from the cedrium, or oil of cedar, which is more fluid; but, by writers in general, it is called cedria, cedrium, and cedrelaum. Gorraeus and Pliny observe, that the great cedar yields a pitch called cedria, to which Galen gives the same appellation with many others. Salamasius says, that the Arabians call the oil of cedar ketran, or alketran; and we, by a corruption of that word, give the name of cedrium to the pitch which is used for ships. Though the Greeks confound cedrelaeum with cedria, they are not the same; for the cedria is the pitch, or resin, that distils from the cedar tree; and the cedrelaeum is an oil obtained from the pitch or resin, and which swims above it in boiling, and is collected with wool. Dioscorides remarks, that the best cedria is thick, pellucid, and of a nauseous smell; when poured out it does not spread, but collects in drops, and preserves dead bodies from putrefaction: it does not, however, appear to be really known what the cedrium is.