. 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 . the thirdwas produced by boiling the buds and twigs in water. In ancient times, Judea, and especially Gilead, wasfamed for its balsam. In the time of the patriarchs,Ishmaelitish merchants brought it, with other spices,from Gilead into Egypt. Gen. xxxvii. 25. It was,also, among the productions which the Jews tradedin with Tyre. Ezek. xxvii. 17. In modern times, found it
. 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 . the thirdwas produced by boiling the buds and twigs in water. In ancient times, Judea, and especially Gilead, wasfamed for its balsam. In the time of the patriarchs,Ishmaelitish merchants brought it, with other spices,from Gilead into Egypt. Gen. xxxvii. 25. It was,also, among the productions which the Jews tradedin with Tyre. Ezek. xxvii. 17. In modern times, found it growing all along the coast of the RedSea to Babelmandel. MYRRH. This name is given in the English translation to twoperfectly distinct words. The myrrh, mentioned inGen. xxxvii. 25, and xliii. 11,is believed, on good grounds,to be the gum called ledum, orladanum. It is obtained fromthe plant called the cistus rose,—(or cistus creticus.) Thisshrub grows about two feethigh; the leaves are smooth,and of a dark green above,and whitish on the under sur-face ; the flowers are of a reddish purple. The gumis collected before sunrise, by a particular instrument,from the leaves, or, in the greatest purity, from the 19. 206 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. beards of the goats that browse upon this plant. Ifsprinkled on live coals, it gives out a very fragrantand reviving smell. The other kind of myrrh is mentioned in Exod. ; Esther ii. 12; Psa. xlv. 8; Prov. vh. 17; Cant,i. 13 ; hi. 6 ; iv. 6, 14; v. 1, 5, 13; also in Matt. ; Mark xv. 23; John xix. 39. It is the productof the balsamomendron myrrha, a small,scrubby tree,found near Gison, in Arabia Felix. Both its woodand bark have a strong and remarkable odour. Theresin is at first oily, and of a yellowish white, then ofthe consistence of butter, and gradually becomes of agold colour, and at last reddish. Myrrh is mentioned among the articles brought byNicodemus to embalm the body of the Saviour. Hero-dotus and others, also, menti
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