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without confulting nature. I never faw fuch a kind, 
and all thofe who are employed in the gathering 
of the manna, know of none that comes from the 
leaves. The manna is generally of two kinds ; 
not on account of the intrinsic quality of them 
being different, but only becaufe they are got in 
a different manner. In order to have the manna, 
thofe who have the management of the woods 
of the Orni in the month of July and Augufl, when 
the weather is very dry and warm, make an ob- 
long incidon, and take off from the bark of the tree 
about three inches in length, and two in breadth ; 
they leave the wound open, and by degrees the 
manna runs out, and is almod fuddenly thickened to 
its proper confidence, and is found adhering to the bark 
of the tree. This manna which is collected in bafkets, 
and goes under the name of manna grajfa, is put in 
a dry place, becaufe moid and wet places will foon 
diffolve it again. This firft kind is often in large irre- 
gular pieces of a brownifh colour, and frequently 
is full of duft and other impurities. But when the people 
want to have a very fine manna, they apply to the 
incifion of the bark, thin draw, or frnall bits of fhrubs, 
fo that the manna, in coming out, runs upon thofe 
bodies, and is colledted in a fort of regular tubes, 
which give it the name of manna in cannoli , that 
is, manna in tubes : this fecond kind is more edeem- 
ed, and always preferred to the other, becaufe it is 
free and clear. There is indeed a third kind of 
manna, which is not commonly to be met with, and 
which I have feen after I left Calabria : it is very 
white, like fugar j but as it is rather for curiofity than 
for ufe, I fhall fay no more of it. The two forts of 
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