Chapter showing how the dead bodies are preserved in this city

Since writing the above, I have lighted on the following interesting note by Mr. J. Winter Jones, which places the subject beyond dispute : — “ The name given to this country [Brazil] by the discoverers was Santa Cruz, which was afterwards changed to Brazil, from the immense quantity o f the wood so called found there. There is early evidence to prove that the wood gave the name to the country and not the country to the wood. The following passage occurs in the Liber Radicum o f the Rabbi Kimchi, a Spaniard who lived in the thirteenth century :— ‘ Algummin (2 Chron. ix. 10) alias Almugim (1 Kings, x. 12 ;) both