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is liquid, but the hony-dew, namely Manna is compacted toge-ther, and congealed; Answer, Although the hony be liquid inthe combes when it is newly gathered, yet thereupon it followsnoc that it was so liquid in the flower, being by a transcendentChimical skill extracted forth of a more groslie substance, andafter rarefied, and defecated in the limbeck of their bladder,moreover, as we (hewed before, in many parts of A fin, the man-na falls more liquid, but hardens after it is gathered.

And againe, it is true in some parts of the World there falls,or rather is gathered this concrete, or coagulated hony (theright manna ) Manna in Calabria is gathered from the leaves ofthe Mulberry-trees that grow higher in the mountaines, it fallslike a dew in the night time, like a dew, and therefore liquid; itis gathered from the leaf of .he Mulberry,"trees, but not of suchas grovv in the Vallies, and it falleth upon the leaves bynight.

L. VeruLSih ^ should sceme that before these dews come upon frees invasil.cenr.8. the Vallies they dissipate,and cannot hold out; it should ieemesi i also the Mulberry leaf it self hath some coagulating venue, which

conspifliteth the dew, for it is not found upon other trees.

And it is more than probable that that Manna that is gatheredcoagulated, hath its c: ndensation from the venue of rhe tree, orplant from whence it is taken.

Pedro, Tcixei- In Persta they call Manna Xirquest-X-ir in Perfien is Milk,andradelos. is the name of the Tree which produceth it, or rather

Rryes de Per- whereof it is gathered; the best comes from H/e*., from whencefill i.e 7 j. i s earned in great quantity to Ormuz^ and from thencethroughout all the East j it is white, soft, sweet, and in Graineslike I’iccnse or Maffick.

Ickmlib t, They have another sort called Toraniabin, gathered oncer-e, »» taine plants like u tld thistles ; there is a Drug or kind of Manna

brought from U r -tad, not same from the River Sir.d in the E ajlsndiei ; the Naturals call it Geuk.tir^of Kaisalt) and Geufat , forof the dewwbich falls and congtales in the lowen fields (mark,it-falls liquid ) k is^athered and called by us Sajgeu, and morecorruptly Salgertla.

I must a litilc digress to reforme a Geographical errour, theRiver Sind which was mentioned before, is the principal of five,of which theRivcr is compounded, first B<hal , which arifeth

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