[75] This substance, according to other authorities, was more probably the saccharine exudation, Mount Sinai manna, which forms on the branches of the tamarix mannifera, and thence falls to the ground.
[76] Wordsworth, “Poetical Works”—Rob Roy’s Grave, vol. iii., p. 21.
[77] Gibbon, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” v., p. 451.
[78] Tremblet, “Les Français dans le Desert” (Paris, 1863).
[79] Goethe’s “Faust,” translated by Theodore Martin, p. 202.
[80] Dr. Livingstone, “Missionary Researches in South Africa.”
[81] Thomas Pringle, “South African Sketches.”
[82] Livingstone, “Missionary Travels and Researches.”
[83] Keat’s “Poetical Works,” sonnet ix.
[84] Livingstone, “Missionary Travels and Researches.”