. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. nder-clouds that hung above it. The forked lightning darted in every direction, and loud peals of thunder revibratedfrom different quarters at the same time. The rain poured in torrents and beat down the sand, and the whole scene was trulysublime. Again, the night following :— We had an awful night of it. The rain came down in one universal deluge of water, the wholeplace was flooded. . The lightning was such as I never before saw, flash followed after flash so instantaneou^y that it was onecontinued blaze of light, in
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. nder-clouds that hung above it. The forked lightning darted in every direction, and loud peals of thunder revibratedfrom different quarters at the same time. The rain poured in torrents and beat down the sand, and the whole scene was trulysublime. Again, the night following :— We had an awful night of it. The rain came down in one universal deluge of water, the wholeplace was flooded. . The lightning was such as I never before saw, flash followed after flash so instantaneou^y that it was onecontinued blaze of light, in which the columns, the rutus, the towers, backed by black clouds, presented a sublime appearance ;and the view over the desert, as flash after flash gleamed over the wide solitary waste, was the strongest and wildest wind had died away, the black clouds hung motionless, and the peals of thunder followed one another in such quick succes-sion as to keep up one continued roll.— Damascus and Palmyra, ii. 324, 325. c Cotovic, 334, 367; Gumpenburg, Chap. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—NOVEMBER. cccxlv summer. The cold does not increase suddenly, the rain falls in showers less heavily, but oflonger continuance; and the sky, during the fair intervals, is oftener cloudy. Trees.—From the preceding statement respecting the weather, the reader will be preparedto expect that the leaves fall from the trees much later than with us. In fact the leaves con-tinue on the trees, for the most part, through November, and fall in the early part of December.*Of particular trees there is little to notice that has not been said under preceding fig-tree is, however, laden with fruit ;b and as it is in connection with this tree that theonly fact we know in the treatment of trees by the ancient Hebrews occurs, while we havereached the season in which such operations are performed, some notice of the subject maynot be misplaced. In the parable of the fig-tree which had f
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