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truft itfelf to the weight of the wave of the deepeft part of 

 that lake when agitated by the wind, but it grew generally 

 about the borders of it, as far as the depth of the water was 

 within a yard. 



Pliny fays it grew like wife in Syria, and there I faw it 

 firft, before I went into Egypt ; it was in the river Jordan, 

 between the fituation of the ancient city Paneas, which 

 Hill bears its name, and the lake of Tiberias, which is pro- 

 bably the lake Pliny alludes to, where he fays it grew, and 

 •with it the calamus odoratus, one of the adventitious plants 

 brought thither formerly by curious men (as I conjecture) 

 which now exifts no more, either in Syria or Egypt. It 

 was on the left hand of the bridge called the Bridge of the 

 Sons of Jacob. The river where it grew was two feet nine 

 inches deep, and it was then increafed with rain. It grew 

 like wife, as Guilandinus * tells us, at the confluence of the 

 Tigris and the Euphrates. I apprehend that it was not 

 thus propagated into Afia and Greece till the ufe of it, as 

 manufactured into paper, was firft known. 



When that was Hill admits of fome difficulty. Pliny fays 

 that Varro writes it came not into general ufe till after the 

 conquer! of Egypt by Alexander ; yet it is plain from Ana- 

 creon f, Alcseus, iEfchylus, and the comic poets, that it was 

 known in their time. Plato and Ariftotle fpeak of it alfo, 

 fo do Herodotus and Theophraftus %. We alfo know it was 

 of old in ufe among the lonians, who probably brought it 



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* Melcb. Guilandin; Philofoph. and Medic. Laufanne, Ann. 1576 Svo. 

 f Anac. Ode. iy. ^ Theoph. Hift. plant, lib. iv. cap. 9. 



