. 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 . its leaves would be nothingout of the common established course of nature, andno proper image of extreme distress and total deser-tion, parallel to that of a garden without water, thatis wholly burned up and destroyed. Upon the whole,he chooses to make it the quercus ilex, commonlycalled the evergreen oak. Its leaves vary considerablyin size and shape, according to the locality
. 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 . its leaves would be nothingout of the common established course of nature, andno proper image of extreme distress and total deser-tion, parallel to that of a garden without water, thatis wholly burned up and destroyed. Upon the whole,he chooses to make it the quercus ilex, commonlycalled the evergreen oak. Its leaves vary considerablyin size and shape, according to the locality in whichit grows; they remain on the tree till they are thrustoff by the young leaves in the spring. Its acorns arebitter and unfit for food. The following is the interesting description given byDr. Robinson of the oak which he saw growing, in1838, in the vicinity of Hebron:—The venerableoak, (Siudian,) to which we now came, is a splendidtree; we hardly saw another like it in all Palestine, THE OAK. 217 certainly not. on this side of the plain of , large trees are very rare in this quarter of thecountry. The trunk of this tree measures twenty-two feet and a half around the lower part. It sepa-. THE OAK OF PALESTINE.—Quercus JEgdojps. rates almost immediately into three large boughs, ortrunks; and one of these, higher up, into two. Thebranches extend from the trunk, in one direction, forty-nine feet; their whole diameter, in the same direction,being eighty-nine feet; and in the other, at right an-gles, eighty-three feet and a half. The tree is in athriving state, and the trunk sound. It stands alonein the midst of the field; the ground beneath it iscovered with grass, and clean; there is a well withwater near by; so that a more beautiful spot for re-creation could hardly be found. I am not sure thatthis is the tree which Sir John Mandeville saw nearHebron, of which he relates, [the absurd legend,] 20 218 SCRIPTUKE NATURAL HISTORY. that it was green in Abraha
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