. 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 . fruit is of the sizeof an orange, divided intonine or ten compartments,containing a quantity of sub-acid juice and purplish kernels; it is ripe about theend of August. Wine of the juice of the pomegranate, Cant. , may mean either wine acidulated with the juiceof this fruit, or a cool summer beverage, made bymixing the juice with water, such as is commonlydrunk in the east
. 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 . fruit is of the sizeof an orange, divided intonine or ten compartments,containing a quantity of sub-acid juice and purplish kernels; it is ripe about theend of August. Wine of the juice of the pomegranate, Cant. , may mean either wine acidulated with the juiceof this fruit, or a cool summer beverage, made bymixing the juice with water, such as is commonlydrunk in the east at the present day. The juice isused with various dishes, much in the same manneras we use lemon juice. The form of the fruit was sobeautiful, that it was used as an ornament at thebottom of the high priests robes, Exod. xxviii. 33;and it was also a principal ornament of the columnsof Solomons temple. 1 Kings vii. IS; 2 Kings ; 2 Chron. iii. 16; Jer. lii. 22, 23. The Hebrew word signifying the pomegranate,(rimmon) is employed either singly, or in combina-tion with some other terms, as the name of variousplaces, in whose vicinity, most probably, this plantflourished in great abundance. Thus we read of 22*. 246 SCRIPTURE NATURAL HISTORY. « Gath-rimmon, Josh. xix. 45, a town which existedin the time of Eusebius ; Remmon-methoar, 13; Rimmon-parez, a station of the Israelites intheir journey through the wilderness, between Rith-mah and Libnah, Numb, xxxiii. 19; the rock ofRimmon, not far from Gibeah, Judges xx. 45, 47;perhaps the same place is meant in 1 Sam. xiv. 2, Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah, undera pomegranate tree which is in Migron. PALM. The palm, or date tree, is a native of the warm cli-mates of Africa and Asia. It rises to a great height,sometimes as much as ninety or a hundred feet. Thestalks, or trunks, are generally full of rugged knots,which are the vestiges of the decayed leaves, for thetrunk of this tree is not solid; but its centre
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