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different colours, that they are little inferior to 

 Sienna marble." Specimens of all these are to 

 be found in the collection left by Dr. Woodward 

 to the University of Cambridge. 



LOCUSTS AND WILD-HONEY. 



" And his meat was locusts and wild-honey." 



Matt, ch, iii. v. 4. 



It has not been till lately that any of our tra- 

 vellers into Palestine have told what was meant 

 by Locusts, in the preceding passage. Dr. 

 Clarke first related that a tree grows there, 

 which is called the Locust-tree, and produces 

 an eatable fruit. But the fact was well known 

 to many who had been in the Mediterranean. 

 The tree grows in several of the countries which 

 border that sea. It has been lately found in 

 much greater abundance in some parts of the 

 East Indies, whence it has now become an ar- 

 ticle of exportation. Many thousands of its 

 pods are at present iii the warehouses of the 

 East India Docks, and either because the fruit 

 is richer in the more southern climates, or for 

 some other reason, a great quantity of them 

 have been shipped on board a vessel bound for 



