The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . 34 (because nothing can grow in a soil covered withsalt, Jer. xvii. 6: Judg. xix. 45): Col. iv. 6 (where it refers to ap-posite pure discourse): Matt. v. 13 : Mark ix. 50. Heb. Melach. Sand abounds in Palestine, and is often used as a comparison, to ex-press abundance, extensiveness, weight, etc. Heb. Choi. 2. Stones and Eocks. Alabaster, (from the Coptic, the whitish stone) of the moderns, is a kindof gypsum: among the ancients the word was applied to a box,made of a kind of onyx (Pliny, lib. xxxvi. chap, i), Matt. xxvi.
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . 34 (because nothing can grow in a soil covered withsalt, Jer. xvii. 6: Judg. xix. 45): Col. iv. 6 (where it refers to ap-posite pure discourse): Matt. v. 13 : Mark ix. 50. Heb. Melach. Sand abounds in Palestine, and is often used as a comparison, to ex-press abundance, extensiveness, weight, etc. Heb. Choi. 2. Stones and Eocks. Alabaster, (from the Coptic, the whitish stone) of the moderns, is a kindof gypsum: among the ancients the word was applied to a box,made of a kind of onyx (Pliny, lib. xxxvi. chap, i), Matt. xxvi. 7:Mark xiv. 3: Luke vii. 37. Pliny spates that it was much usedfor perfumery boxes, as it still is in Egypt. Chalk-stones, Isa. xxvii. 9, lime-stone, the chief material of the hills ofSyria and Palestine. It is hard and whitish ; sometimes yellow orgray. Heb. Gir. FIR, OR SYRIAN PINE TREE. BURRS OF THE CEDARS OF (Page 262.) LEBANON. (Page 255.) Scotch Fir and Cypres-3 trees are (See illustrations also oppo- still very abundant in Palestine. site pages 254 and 537.). AN AMMONITE, OR FOSSIL SHELL.(From a Photograph.)These curious shells are found embedded in the cream-colored chalk, or limestonecliffs of Palestine. (Page 270.) This limestone is very similar in appearance to thecarbouate of lime and magnesia found elsewhere. The above specimen was pickedup among the-mountains of Galilee. (Page 294, also see illustration opposite page288.) It is apparently A. Syriacus, with a Nerinea Syriaca turretted shell on the sideand a Natica Syr. or Turritella Syr. on the end. MINERALOGY—PRECIOUS STONES. 2U Crystal ( i. 22: Job xxviii. 17) means literally in Hebrew andGreek, ice, a transparent, glass-like stone, of the flint family, 6; xxii. 1. Heb. Kerach, Gabhish. Flint, Deut. viii. 15: xxxii. 13: Psa. cxiv. 8: Isa. 1. 7 : Job xxviii. 9,translated also rock. The rocks of Sinai, to which in Deut. viii.,the word is applied, are granite, porphyry and green-stone, andsuch rocks
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