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Salmasius, however, prefers another: ac- 

 cording to him the Arabs and Chaldeans 

 used the word man, to signify a kind of dew 

 or honey that fell on trees, and was gathered 

 in great abundance on Mount Libanus ; on 

 which footing the Israelites did not use the 

 term manna out of surprise, but because they 

 found this food fall with the dew, in the same 

 manner as the honey-dew, so well known to 

 them under the name of man. 



M. Pirolle tells us, that in France the com- 

 mon ash is often attacked by the Spanish 

 flies, which sometimes entirely destroy the 

 foliage, and cause an odour that is both inju- 

 rious and disagreeable ; for when they be- 

 come decomposed into a dust, it is difficult 

 to pass the trees without inhaling these dan- 

 gerous particles. 



The foliage of the ash tree changes to a 

 lemon colour in October. x 



" Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, 

 Now green in youth, now with'ring on the ground ; 

 Another race the following spring supplies, 

 They fall successive, and successive rise : 

 So generations in their course decay, 

 So flourish these, when those are past away. 



Pope's Homer. 



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