. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . men are in the midst of her Like fatted bullocks.—Jer- xlvi. 20. O ye destroyers of mine heritage ! Because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, And bellow as bulls.—Jer. Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, And loveth to tread out the corn.—Hos. x. 11. These expressions may strike us as very strange,unaccustomed as we are to a pastoral life. But to aSyrian shepher
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . men are in the midst of her Like fatted bullocks.—Jer- xlvi. 20. O ye destroyers of mine heritage ! Because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, And bellow as bulls.—Jer. Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, And loveth to tread out the corn.—Hos. x. 11. These expressions may strike us as very strange,unaccustomed as we are to a pastoral life. But to aSyrian shepherd his first-born bullock was like a bo-som friend; his young cow was an image of all thatwas beautiful; his mare he would call a princess; andhis horse, a sheikh, or chief. Phrases of this sort,A man like a buffalo/ or, A woman like a cow,*would sound to us like expressions of contempt; butamong a people whose riches consisted chiefly inflocks and herds, it was quite different. When thesultan of Darfur, a country near Abyssinia, sits downon his throne, a herald proclaims before him Beholdthe buffalo! the son of the buffalo! the bull of bulls!the elephant in strength! and the people bow theknee before Oxen and Yoke. The ox, whose whole structure renders it fit for theplough, was employed from the earliest times as a * Homer calls Juno ox-eyed, an epithet in compliment to herbeauty. THE COW, OX, AND HEIFER. 45 beast of draught, and also to carry burdens. Num. —8. The ox was not put under the yoke till threeyears old. Oxen were trained to the draught in theeasiest manner by the threshing machine. In themiddle of the field, a post was driven into the ground,and a long pole fastened to it, so that it turned roundthe post, like the spoke of a wheel round the this pole, from six to twelve, or more, cattle, werefastened, and driven round till the ground was troddenquite hard. Then the threshing-floor was swept; thesheaves were laid down, and trodden out by th
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