. 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 . osebranches were gathered for celebrating the feast oftabernacles on the return of the Jews from their cap-tivity in Babylon. CYPRES S. The cypress is an evergreen, cone-bearing tree, of abeautiful upright form: it is not more than twenty orthirty feet high, but attains to a great age. Its yel-lowish red and fragrant wood is one of the most en-during, and is not liable to rot,
. 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 . osebranches were gathered for celebrating the feast oftabernacles on the return of the Jews from their cap-tivity in Babylon. CYPRES S. The cypress is an evergreen, cone-bearing tree, of abeautiful upright form: it is not more than twenty orthirty feet high, but attains to a great age. Its yel-lowish red and fragrant wood is one of the most en-during, and is not liable to rot, or to be eaten by in-sects. For these qualities it was made use of by theancient heathens in constructing the statues of theirgods. The gates of St. Peters church at Rome, whichhad lasted from the time of Constantine, A. D. 306—337. to that of Pope Eugene the fourth, A. D. 1431,that is to say, eleven hundred years, were of cypress,and had in that time suffered no decay. The gopher wood, or rather tree, of which Xoahbuilt the ark, is with some probability supposed tohave been the cypress. CYPRESS. PINE. 225 III Isa. xliv. 14, a tree is mentioned, which in theEnglish version is called a cypress, but, as the word. occurs nowhere else, its precise meaning must be leftundetermined. PINE. The pines form a large family of plants belongingchiefly to the cold and temperate climates. They aremost of them evergreen; the leaves are long, slender,needle-shaped, and grow in pairs, threes, fours, orfives, with sheath at their base. Thewood of some kinds is useful for timber, and in mostof them abounds an oily and resinous substance, knownby different names, according to the places or the dif-ferent trees from which it comes. Burgundy pitch,common frankincense, Canada balsam, Venetian andother turpentines, are obtained from various sorts of 226 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. pines. Common turpentine flows from the pine byincisions. From this the oil is got by distillation, andwhat r
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