. British birds in their haunts. Birds -- Great Britain. THE COMMON QUAIL. 367 let them fall by the camp, as it were a clay's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up aU that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails : he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the ; The facts ^3. THE COMMON QUAIL. in these two narratives, to which I would wish to draw atten


. British birds in their haunts. Birds -- Great Britain. THE COMMON QUAIL. 367 let them fall by the camp, as it were a clay's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up aU that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails : he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the ; The facts ^3. THE COMMON QUAIL. in these two narratives, to which I would wish to draw attention, are: the season of the year at which the occurrence took place, namely, in the first month of the Jewish year, shortly after the Passover ; the precise time, in the night; the vast number of which the flocks were composed; that they came from the sea; and that they fell as if exhausted with their long flight. In both instances, the miracle consisted in the fact that the coming of a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johns, C. A. (Charles Alexander), 1811-1874; Wolf; Wymper. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge


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