. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. the body, commence their repast even before life isextinct. The traveller continually seesremains of this faithful servant ofman, exhibiting sometimes the perfectskeleton, covered with a shrunk shri-velled hide, sometimes the bonesonly, altogether deprived of flesh, andbleached to dazzling whiteness by thescorching rays of a desert sun. Gazelles are common in Palestine,and abound in the Syrian desert. Itis difficult to conceive creatures morebeautiful, or any whose frame andorganization is adapted to its pro-verbially r
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. the body, commence their repast even before life isextinct. The traveller continually seesremains of this faithful servant ofman, exhibiting sometimes the perfectskeleton, covered with a shrunk shri-velled hide, sometimes the bonesonly, altogether deprived of flesh, andbleached to dazzling whiteness by thescorching rays of a desert sun. Gazelles are common in Palestine,and abound in the Syrian desert. Itis difficult to conceive creatures morebeautiful, or any whose frame andorganization is adapted to its pro-verbially rapid motions. The beautyof their large and lustrous, yet mild,black eyes, supplies a thousand allu-sions to the poets and orators of theEast, who think they bestow on awoman the most rapturous commen-dation when they say She has theeyes of a gazelle. Its speed suppliessimilar allusions, and Swift of footas a gazelle expresses the most ex-travagant admiration of fleetness in ahorse or in man. So it was amongthe ancient Hebrews; as where re-ference is made to the speed of. %-£ ^mM§lt 1•? *l M J [Gazelles.]See a striking instance of this in Stephens, ii. 11G. cccxcn PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VIII.
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