. 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 . a great quantityof honey, and for that reason they are visited in SouthAmerica by the humming birds, which are said to livechiefly on the nectareous juices of flowers. It is anative of Egypt, and, in better times, of Palestine. APPLES OP SODOM. The Bible speaks only of the vine of Sodom, andthat metaphorically, in Deut. xxxii. 32; but, asSodom stands so conspicuous inScripture
. 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 . a great quantityof honey, and for that reason they are visited in SouthAmerica by the humming birds, which are said to livechiefly on the nectareous juices of flowers. It is anative of Egypt, and, in better times, of Palestine. APPLES OP SODOM. The Bible speaks only of the vine of Sodom, andthat metaphorically, in Deut. xxxii. 32; but, asSodom stands so conspicuous inScripture history, it will hardly beoverstepping the proper limits ofthis work to notice the remarkableproduction which derives its namefrom that place; we allude to theapples of Sodom, supposed by , to be the fruit of a treecalled by the Arabs oskar. Wegive the description in the words of Dr. Robinson:— Jlpples of Sodom. One of the first objects whichattracted our notice on arriving at Ain Jidy, (a beau-tiful fountain, which bursts forth from a mountain nearthe Dead Sea, at the height of four hundred feetabove its level,) was a tree with singular fruit, which,without knowing at the moment whether it had been. 190 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. observed by former travellers, or not, instantly sug-gested to our minds the far-famed fruits which grewNear that bituminous lake where Sodom stood. This was the oskar of the Arabs, (the calotropis gi-gantea of botanists,) which is found in abundance inUpper Egypt and Nubia, and also in Arabia Felix,but seems to be confined, in Palestine, to the bordersof the Dead Sea. We saw it only at Ain Jidy; Has-selquist found it in the desert between Jericho andthe northern shore; and Irby and Mangles met withit of large size at the south end of the sea, and on theisthmus of the peninsula. We saw here several trees of the kind, the trunksof which were six or eight inches in diameter, and thewhole height from ten to fifteen feet. It has a greyish,cor
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