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extremity which was covered with leather, an oval leather bowl 
three feet long and two feet broad, and a sieve to free the 
manna from insects and leaves. The leather receptacle was 
placed beneath the bushes, and the bushes above beaten with 
the crooked stick. In a few minutes a handful of white sticky 
substance, not unlike hoarfrost, was obtained. This was sweet 
to the taste and sticking to the fingers if pressed. It remained 
hard in cool weather, but liquified when exposed to a higher 
temperature. 
In a note! on the above paper by Mir Jaifer Tabeat, a 
he name 
Persian physician, we are informed that gez is t of 
a similar substance, called in Arabic athel. which is astringent 
and employed in medicine; Taranjabin is a third kind used 
as a laxative. He states that it is the universal] opinion in 
Persia that these exudations are not the work of insects. 
vessels. To pilgrims visiting the monastery it is sold in small 
Among other references to tamarisk manna Rich 4 might 
be quoted. He describes the collection of gazangabin, called 
by the Koords ghehzo, by picking the leaves of the trees, letting 
them dry and then gently threshing them over a cloth. The 
season he says commences about the end of June. At Jacoba- 
bad,* _& station known for its high summer temperature, the 
tamarisk yields in the cold weather a very course kind of manna 
which is picked in the early morning before the sun rises and 
eaten by the very poor. 
1 Asiatic Journal, vii (1819), 268. 
2 Symbole Physic, ete., Zoologica, ii, Insecta x. 
3 Residence 7 istan, 1, 142. 
* Trans. Med. and Phys. Society, Bombay, iv, 1860, 329. 
