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has already been advanced. The Caloyers told him, 
that they called it Tereniabin ; and he takes it foe 
granted, that it was the Tereniabin of the old Arabi- 
ans, contrary to their own Accounts, fupported by the 
Tedimony of their Succelfors, who are known to 
vary as little as any People whatever from the Tra- 
ditions and Cuftoms of their Predeceflors, and fiill 
retain a great many of their Appellations. For 
Proof of this, I need only refer to the Accounts 
which Rauwolf, Tournefort , and Dr. Shaw, give 
us of thofe People. 
That this liquid Manna was the Agoo-ope At, 
feu ’A epfjuehi, of Galen * , and the MeAi xscP&ivoy, 
of Hippocrates “f*, (fuppofmg there is no Mif- 
take in the Text), feems very probable. The 
Defcription which Galen has left of the Mel rofei - 
dum , and the Manner of colle&ing it on Mount 
Sinai in his Time, tallies exa&ly with Belloniuss 
Account ; and thus far, I believe, all Authors agree : 
But that the Virtues of Manna were known fo early 
as in the Times of thefe Two Authors, will be dif- 
ficult to prove. 
Galen takes notice of this Mel rofeidum more as 
a Curiofity, than a Medicine. He no-where, that I 
know of, mentions its Ufe, or deferibes its Quali- 
ties : He introduces the Account of it with a Memint 
aliquando , and fays, that the Mel rofeidum was rarely 
met with in his Country, but was gather’d at Mount 
Sinai every Year : And, indeed, from the Manner 
* Galen, de Alem. Facult. L. III. c. 39* + Hippocraf* 
de Ulceribus , p, 876. Edit. Foefii. 
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