. Sacred geography, and antiquities . INTERIOR OF AN ANCIENT WINE-PRESS. LODGE IN A GARDEN. AGBICULTUKE. 351 the expressed juice. These receptacles were built of stone andcovered with plaster, or they were hewn out of ihe solid (Bib. Ees., vol. 3, p. 137), gives the following descrip-tion of an ancient press and vat at Hableh: Advantage hadbeen taken of a ledge of rock; on the upper side towards thesouth a shallow vat had been dug out, eight feet square andfifteen inches deep, its bottom declining slightly towards thenorth. The thickness of rocS: left on the north was one
. Sacred geography, and antiquities . INTERIOR OF AN ANCIENT WINE-PRESS. LODGE IN A GARDEN. AGBICULTUKE. 351 the expressed juice. These receptacles were built of stone andcovered with plaster, or they were hewn out of ihe solid (Bib. Ees., vol. 3, p. 137), gives the following descrip-tion of an ancient press and vat at Hableh: Advantage hadbeen taken of a ledge of rock; on the upper side towards thesouth a shallow vat had been dug out, eight feet square andfifteen inches deep, its bottom declining slightly towards thenorth. The thickness of rocS: left on the north was one foot;and two feet lower down on that side, another smaller vat wasexcavated, four feet square by three feet deep. The grapeswere trodden in the shallow upper vat; and the juice drawn offby a hole at the bottom (still remaining), into the lower dimensions of the upper vat—eight feet square—are thosegiven by Jahn (Archseology, § 69), for the present winepress ofPersia, its depth, however, being four feet. According to theEgyptian monuments two vats for
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