Pivo, pierogi, pierniki & Pliny!

I can't seem to escape him...here in the Gdansk museum, they quote him on amber.

I pulled out my "Natural History." He has several pages on amber..."There can be no doubt," he says, "that amber is a product of the islands of the Northern Ocean...produced from a marrow discharged by trees belonging to the pine genus, like gum from the cherry, and resin from the ordinary pine...one great proof that it is the product of a tree of the pine genus, is the fact that it emits a pine-like smell when rubbed, and that it burns, when ignited, with the odor and appearance of torch-pine wood..."