* called the name.
15
In consequence of the term manna having been given to a drug
which is now much used in England, many persons have
ignorantly supposed it to be the same sort of thing as that
miraculously sent for the sustenance of the children of
Israel in the wilderness. The manna of commerce comes from
Calabria and Sicily, where it oozes out of a kind of ash
tree, from the end of June to the end of July, and is a
thick, clammy, sweet juice, partly drawn from the tree by the
rays of the sun, partly by the puncture of insects, and
partly by artificial means. The European manna is not so
good as the Oriental, which is gathered in Syria, Arabia, and
Persia, from the Oriental oak, and from a shrub which is
called in Persia {teranjabin.}
* and it was.
Nu 11:6,7 So 2:3
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