. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. f corn. As these operations may be said tohave their regular commencement in this month, we have chosen this place for the introductionof the statement we have to offer respecting these and the other agricultural processes of theseason. With a view to this, we have provided ourselves with a series of pictorial illustrationsfrom the ancient Egyptian sculptures at Eleithuias, which will, we expect, throw more lighton the subject than it has hitherto received; for we have to regret that Sir J. G. Wilkinsonspromised volume
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. f corn. As these operations may be said tohave their regular commencement in this month, we have chosen this place for the introductionof the statement we have to offer respecting these and the other agricultural processes of theseason. With a view to this, we have provided ourselves with a series of pictorial illustrationsfrom the ancient Egyptian sculptures at Eleithuias, which will, we expect, throw more lighton the subject than it has hitherto received; for we have to regret that Sir J. G. Wilkinsonspromised volume on Egyptian Agriculture has not yet been produced. In taking the subject of ploughing, with which that of sowing and other operations areinseparably connected, we shall first trace out the facts derivable from the representations of a Cliron. ii. 10. b pl0. x. 6; xxv. 20. d 1 Sam. vi. 19; xxv. 18; 2 Sam. xvi. 1 ; 1 Chron. xiii. 40. f Russell, i. 8. s « Russell, i. Plin. Nat. Hist., in Asia Minor, 142. HAP. VII.] HISTORY OF THE MONTHS—OCTOBER. cccxxxvu. [1. Hoeing the Ground] ancient agricultural operations which* the old Egyptians have transmitted to us; and then wewill endeavour to trace the Scriptural intimations, and connect them with, or illustrate themby, these, or by the existing processes and implements. In the first portion of this service weshall be much assisted by the descriptions which M. Costaz has given of the painted sculpturesin the grottoes of Since Egypt was undoubtedly one of the first countries brought under human culture, itis evident that (with certain limitations suggested by the peculiarities in the physical con-stitution of that country) it affords much illustration, not only to the particular history of suchprocesses in Palestine, but to their general ancient history, in the largest acceptation of theterm. Men could not long have turned their attention to agriculture before they discovered the useand indeed necessity, of
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