To the above may be added[1975] nuts, chestnuts, walnuts,[1976] honey, wax,[1977] tar, wool, rigging, leather, goatskins, timber,[1978] horses[1979] and pheasants from the Phasis,[1980] and slaves, particularly archers.[1981] The honey of Heraclea, like that of Mazanderân, and certain poisons, is said to have produced a temporary madness.[1982] From the kingdom of Pontos was obtained that medicinal root denominated rha,[1983] which has sometimes been confounded with rhubarb,[1984] though the latter be laxative, the former astringent, together with isinglass,[1985] used in cosmetics, for smoothing the wrinkles of the face, liquorice-root, brought also from Cappadocia,[1986] wild spikenard found growing on shady mountains,[1987] wormwood which fattened sheep and diminished their gall,[1988] amomon,[1989] and germander.[1990] ----- Footnote 1975: Athen. ii. 13. Cf. Bœckh. Pub. Econ. of Athens, i. 66. Footnote 1976: Didym. ap. Geopon. x. 68. 1. Plin. Nat. Hist. xv. 22. Footnote 1977: Dioscor. ii. 105. Footnote 1978: Lucian. Navig. § 23. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 2. 12. Footnote 1979: There are in modern times few countries where horses are cheaper and more numerous than in Colchis:—“Il n’y a point d’homme si pauvre dans la Colchide qui n’ait un cheval, car il ne coute rien à entretenir; entre les gentilshommes il y eu a qui en nourrissent deux cens et le prince en a cinq mille.” Lamberti, Relation de la Mingrelie, Voyages au Nord, t. vii. p. 193. Footnote 1980: Aristoph. Nub. 109. The woods of Colchis abound still in pheasants and partridges. Busbequius, Epist. iii. p. 205. Lamberti, however, relates, that the race of partridges was almost extinct in Colchis, through the abundance of birds of prey. Voyages au Nord, t. vii. p. 192. Footnote 1981: Thucyd. iii. 2. Plut. Sympos. v. 7. 1. Eurip. in Alcest. 675. Footnote 1982: