THE Egyptian Cassia is a Fruit like the former, only that it is thinner, and a great deal tenderer. The Tree that bears this Cassia grows to a prodigious Size; it is as large as any Tree we have in France, and differs not from the former but as the Leaves are much smaller. They meet with such vast Quantities of these Trees throughout Egypt, that the Cassia they produce goes for almost nothing at Grand Cairo. One wou'd chuse this as soon as that of the Levant, only that they break the Cases with their Thumbs to get out the Pulp. The Levantines and Egyptians make a Confection of the Cassia, being yet green, which they keep to loosen the Belly, it being a Medicine very convenient, and easy to take. The Cassia Confect ought to be new, and boil'd to the Consistence of a Syrup that is neither eager nor musty. Some People preserve it, as the Levantines, to keep the Body open.