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Egypt, but is brought hither from the iflands in 
Archipelago. 
Allium par rum. Linnaei. Leeks. Rarrat of the 
Arabians. 
This was certainly one of thofe defired by the 
Children of Ifrael, as it has been cultivated from 
the earlieft times to the prefent in Egypt, 
The feafons for this, are the winter and fpring 
months : the inhabitants are very fond of it, 
eating it raw as fauce for their roaft meat ; the 
poor people eat it raw with bread, efpecially for 
breakfaft, ufing the earth for a table, and would 
Icarcely exchange their leeks and a bit of bread 
for a royal dinner. 
Leo. The Lion. The Arabs call this Animal 
Sabbe. 
This is not met with in Syria or Palefline ; but in 
great numbers at Babylon, now Bagdad). It is not 
an inhabitant of Egypt, unlefs it be on the confines 
of Lybia, coming from the inland parts of Africa. 
How is this confident with the Bible, where the 
Lion is mentioned as an animal common to Palef- 
tine and Syria, efpecially in the hiftory of Samp- 
fon ? Where did the fight between Sampfon and 
the lion happen ? 
Locuftss Johannis. St. John’s Locufts. 
Of thefe I have already treated. 
Petra Mofis. 
The Rock which Mofes broke by a miracle, 
Exod, xvii. 6. and out of which he made the 
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