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and large fpread tree,(the barks onelyof whole rootes they ule) greater then any Elmc, whole leaves are fixe or 
Icven inches long,and two inches broad, ofapalegreenecolourontheupperfide,and deeper greene on the un- 
derfide, bearing a fmall yellow fruite no bigger then a penny, heart falhion, tailing like an Allmond or Peach 
kernell, covered with adouble thin tranlparentskin likeabladdcr, clofe j'oyned together, and growing out of 
themiddleofaleafe, which is as bigge r.s the reft on thetree, butthacitis a little rounder pointed, and nar¬ 
rower towards theftalke, being ofaco'.ourbetweeneredand yellow, and crumpled with divers veines therein, 
and like unto the bladders ol the Elmetree leaves.- every pare of this tiee giveth milke as the Mulberry tree doth, 
and hath very great and faire fpread rootes like thel/e.vor Evcrgtetne Oke, covered with a thickc, ruegedand 
hard barkeofanalh colour on the outfide, and whire within, lull of milke while it is frclh, but turning s ellow- 
ilh when it is dryed, very aftringent ar.da littleHiarpeor biting withail,which vanilhethquickely: itloveth 
to grow in moiftfandy grounds, and killech all the hetbes that would grow about it, and is found in ACalabar 
Cochin. Crangar.or, and many other places and Iflands in the Eaftlndics; t!’,c Portugals call it Arbor e del.es Ca- 
merM, and fome Adore de SanBo Thome, and Mncruyre. Thebarke ofthe roote is"ufcd much in all the Hofpi- 
talls, and of great account with the Indians to cure laskes and fluxesof che belly, or blood, and give it either in 
pouthermixed withfome fowremilke.orfleepediuwhey all night and taken in the morning, and fometimes if 
it be needlull as Acofla faith, they put fome Opium to it to make the medicine the ftronger, and the Arabians put 
both Opium and Nutmegs to it and fo cure thcmithe faid barke alfo Ifayeth vomitings or callings,and ftrengthneth 
the wcake ftomacke. 
Chap. XXXVII. 
Mannagranata & liqaida, Manna in hard graines and liquid or thin, 
Anna is &fcwo (undry forts, the one hard and in pecces,either grearcr or leffer, the other liquid or thin 
like the thinner or at lead leffe thickc hony, yet fome have thought that the Manna tbttrU was 
that Manna that wasufed in (hops, but Monaricu in one of his Epilties confuteth that errour, {hew¬ 
ing that it is but the fmall pecces and dull of the Tfau or OWudxot, that became fobythe bruiling and 
rubbing of one peece againft another in the carriage. Of the dryer or hard iort there is fome diverfity forthat 
which is gathered in Arabia differeth from that in Perfia, and cailed Tranfihibil, being in fmall graines fomewhat 
like unto Coriander feed, and is gathered as Pamvclfns faith, from thofe trees the Arabians call Agull or Alhaoi, 
Another fort is reddilh and gathered from herbes and plants. T^hat of Tcrfiais called -Vircafi, that is, Lacarbi. 
r»w»,the milke of trees and is white like that of Calabria, whereoffomeisasfinall as Hempefecd, others as big 
as Allmond Comfits, yet Gam* faith that che liquid fort is fo called by them. Another fort is gathered in Ar- 
menia, in great lumpcs as Rauwjficu faith of a browniih colour. Another fort is affirmed by Aphrodifem, cited by Armmiaca, 
Niger, that failing as an honie dew on mount Libansu in Syria, is by the heat of the Sunne congealed into a hard 
Sugar which the Inhabitants call Sacchar, from whence came the I.atine word Saccharum. All thefc forts ate re- Syriac 1, 
corded by fundry Authours, fome contrarying one another as is aforefaid, andmightbe much more amplyfied, 
if this place were fit for it, and therefore as I cake.it I have taken the truer reports: but whereas fome 
have thought that fome of thefe fmaller white forts might be the Manna of the lfraelites wherewith they were 
fed, and therefore called bread, and that from heaven, yea Angels food, not chat Angels feed thereon, bnc 
WT * cfy*’,pcT excellentinm,che choyfelt and chiefeft,for forty ycares together in the wilderneffe of Sinai and Ara¬ 
bia, it (hewerh that luch have had little converfation with the holy Scriptures, as a learning not fit for them to 
underftand, which is flat againft luch conceites divers wayce. Firft that this of theirs had no purging, but a nutri¬ 
tive quality.- fccondly it was not fo Sugar lweete as ours in tafte: thirdly itfell noton certaine dayes, thatison 
their Sabbaths, although it did all the weeke after: fourthly it fell all the yeare long, and not the Summer onely 
as our Manna doth: fifthly it vanifhed away as foone as the Sunne grew hot upon it,but oursiscondenlate there¬ 
by: fixthly it would putrefie if it were kept but two dayes except the Sabbath : And laftly as icis in Jofhua, the 
5,Chapter, and 22. verfe. 1 hat Manna ceafed to fall any more, after they had eaten thecorne of the Land, 
which was the morrow after the Paffeover, whereby you may fie how vaine the conceices,and long altercations 
of men are, aboutthofe things whereof they are ignoraYir, or not lufficiencly inltrafted : this isbut obiter, and 
therefore to proceed. In Europe we have Manna, and called CaUbrina, as being thought not to be found in any 
Country befides, bur both Matthiolus and Bcllonius, and fome others alfo doe ceftifie there againft, upon their 
owne fight and knowledge, as Matthiolws that in Goritenfi, and Tridentino a^rU, hee gathered it himlelfeand 
Belltmim in TSrianfon, and others in other places, but there is a great controverlie and contenGon amongft many 
learned men: firft whether it be onely a dew ofheavencondenfate by the cold of thenight, or whether it be as 
agummcilTuingfrom rrees, being inched or wounded as other trees are that yccld gummss: The Monckes 
thac commented on Adefaei, and to likewife divers others were confident that it ilTued from wounded trees like 
gnmmc, and was no dew from heaven, for proofe whereof they aliedge that the trees being overfpread or co¬ 
vered with anycloath or the like, there would not be found in the morning that any dew had falne thereon,and 
yet the trees yeelded the Manna, which UWatthiolM thinking ro difprove, faith it cannot found to reafon or the 
courle of nature, but rather that the matter happeneth in this fort, that the dewes (ailing on the dry barkesof 
thofe trees were drunke up by them, and was forced forth agame in fmall peeces like gumme in the heate ol the 
yeare, r.ot being the proper jnyce of the trees, but what it had gained as aforefaid, and that this kinde of Manna 
was more loofeandfpongy, and leffe operative then the other, and that this happeneth by the fccret and hidden 
property in nature, efprcially of thofe trees tocontaine this dew in them in lumpes, and not 10 be liquid as ono- 
thers all about them : A fecond controverlie is whether Manna be gathered onely from the manured or wilde 
Afhorno, fome affirming it ftrongly, and others denying it as ftoutly, as is before faid, that Matthiolm arid 
HelloniM doe declare: A third controverlie is, whether it be onely peculiar to Calabria , and Apulia, or nor, 
which although fome affirme for Calabria, yet ye heare as before, it is to be found in many othcrplates. The 
other fort that is liquid or thin, is gathered both in AJla and Europe alike, but that ofthe Levant is both more 
plentiful! 
