. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. which they are more or less cultivated. First, there is the Sesame,™ a plant of summer culture, along with the dourra and maize,after the barley has been harvested. In Egypt it is ripe at the end of October after havingbeen five months in the ground. When cut down, it is carried to the threshing-floor, andthere exposed in the sun until thoroughly dry, when the grain is beaten out with rods. Some- a Lupinus termis. b Viciafaba equina. c 2 Sara. xvii. 18 ; Ezek. iv. 9. * Hist, des Juifs, liv. iv. chap. 31. e Mishna, tit.
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. which they are more or less cultivated. First, there is the Sesame,™ a plant of summer culture, along with the dourra and maize,after the barley has been harvested. In Egypt it is ripe at the end of October after havingbeen five months in the ground. When cut down, it is carried to the threshing-floor, andthere exposed in the sun until thoroughly dry, when the grain is beaten out with rods. Some- a Lupinus termis. b Viciafaba equina. c 2 Sara. xvii. 18 ; Ezek. iv. 9. * Hist, des Juifs, liv. iv. chap. 31. e Mishna, tit. Orla. f Mishna, tit. Maaseroth, cap. v. 8, et passim; tit. Eduith. cap. iii. 8. 8 Trigonellafmnum Grcecum. h Maize, 160,000 ardebs ; helbeh, 110,000. Nat. Hist. i. 91. k Theil, ii. p. 26. 1 A curious way this of spelling an Arabic word. But we may recognise in it the Arabic word (batykh) for a melon in general,and not for any particular species—which is always denoted by an Sesamum Orientate. cccxx PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. times the plants are tied up in bundles, and<=jq|L l^wfe? suspended from a line to dry. The seerig, as the oil expressed from this grain is called, is reck-oned the best lamp-oil. It is also used in thekitchen, but is considered of inferior flavour tothat extracted from the lettuce, though of greatervalue. The residue of the pressed seed, afterthe oil is extracted, is eaten by the peasants,and to some extent by the townspeople, and soldunder the name of koosbeh. The unbruisedseeds are strewed upon cakes, and give theirname and flower to a coarse Thestalks are used for fuel. Sesame was cultivated by the old Hebrews;and to the dietetic use of its oil, they addedits employment to give In the casuisticaldecisions of the Hebrew doctors, the same ac-amnm uen l commodating rule was extended to it as to rice and to millet, that it might be attended to and gathered in the sabbatic year provided it
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