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Such was a part of the food of John the 

 Baptist, during his abode in the wilderness. It 

 should be added, that in the stems of this 

 Locust-tree, the wild bees still deposit their 

 honey. 



This explanation of the sense, in which St, 

 Matthew uses the word Locusts, is the more 

 worthy of notice, as it has escaped Whitby, and 

 several, if not all, of the commentators. Nor do 

 any of the lexicons remedy their deficiency by 

 an aditional synonym for the Greek word. 



THE AMIANTHUS INCOMBUSTIBLE MINERAL. 



This mineral is met with in potstone or ser- 

 pentine rocks, either dispersed through them, or 

 accumulated in their clefts and crevices, un- 

 mixed with any other substance. The most beau- 

 tiful comes from the province of Tarentesia in 

 "Savoy ; it is in white flexible filaments, sometimes 

 a foot long, of a pure silky lustre. In some parts 

 of Corsica, it is so common as to have been used 

 by Dolomieu instead of hay or moss, to pack 

 up specimens of other minerals in. The 

 islands of Elba and Crete; Zoblitz, in Saxony; 

 Swartwick, in Sweden ; Cornwall and Anglesey, 



