“The author, by the kindness of a traveller, recently returned from Egypt, has received a small quantity of manna; it was, however, though still palatable, in a liquid state, from the heat of the sun.  He has obtained the additional curious fact, that manna, if not boiled or baked, will not keep more than a day, but becomes putrid and breeds maggots.  It is described as a small round substance, and is brought in by the Arabs in small quantities mixed with sand.”  It would appear from these very interesting facts, that this exudation, which transpires from the thorns or leaves of the tamarix, is altogether different from the manna of the manna-ash.  We cannot doubt, from the entire coincidence in every respect, that the manna found in the wilderness of Sinai by the Arabs now, is identical with that of the Scriptures.  That the minute particulars recorded should be every whit verified by modern research and discovery, is worthy of great attention.  As Moses directed Aaron to “take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the LORD, (in the ark,) to be kept for the generations of Israel,” as a memorial; so the remarkable phenomenon remains in evidence of the truth of the narrative.  The miracle, however, remains precisely as it was.  There is sufficient to appeal to, as an existing and perpetual memorial to all generations.  The MIRACLE, from which there can be no appeal, and which allows of no equivocation, consisted in its ample abundance, in its continued supply, and its complete intermission on the sacred day of rest.  Nutritious substances have fallen from the atmosphere in some countries; such, for example, was that which fell a few years ago in Persia, and was examined by Thenard.  It proved to be a nutritious substance referable to a vegetable origin.  We have before us, at the moment of writing these pages, a small work, printed at Naples in 1793, the author of which is Gaetano Maria La Pira; it is entitled, “Memoria sulla pioggia della Manna,” &c.:  and describes a shower of manna which fell in Sicily, in the month of September, 1792.  The author, a professor of chemistry, at Naples, gives an interesting account of the circumstances under which it was found, together with a variety of interesting particulars, some of which we shall select, and we do so to prove that a similar substance may have an aerial origin, though carried up in the first instance, it may be, by the process of evaporation;—­this would considerably modify the product.  On the 26th September, 1792, a fall of manna took place at a district in Sicily, called Fiume grande; this singular shower lasted, it is stated, for about an hour and a half.  It commenced at twenty-two o’clock, according to Italian time, or about five o’clock in the afternoon:  the space covered with this manna seems to have been considerable.  A second shower covered a space of thirty-eight paces in length, by fourteen in breadth.  This second shower of