. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. nt and Heyman^aw it inGalilee, at Hottein and Safat. Rauwolffk saw it, together with the citron and orange, in avalley near Bethlehem. Another of the family, the lime-tree, grows in the country: at a placejust named, Hottein (called by him Hatti, and by Pococke, Hutin), Clarke1 and his companyreceived hospitable entertainment from a party of Arabs in, and under the shade of, a planta-tion of lime and lemon-trees. If the winter has been mild, some of the winter Jigs, as they are called, still remain ripen-ing on the Jig-
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. nt and Heyman^aw it inGalilee, at Hottein and Safat. Rauwolffk saw it, together with the citron and orange, in avalley near Bethlehem. Another of the family, the lime-tree, grows in the country: at a placejust named, Hottein (called by him Hatti, and by Pococke, Hutin), Clarke1 and his companyreceived hospitable entertainment from a party of Arabs in, and under the shade of, a planta-tion of lime and lemon-trees. If the winter has been mild, some of the winter Jigs, as they are called, still remain ripen-ing on the Jig-trees, although stripped of their leaves; and such as then continue are gatheredas delicious morsels in the early spring. The figs of this winter crop are longer in shape andof a darker colour than those which the fig-tree arfords in a Sol. Song, ii. 3. b Prov. xxv. 11. c Sol. Song, vii. 8. d Ibid. ii. 5. c Ibid. viii. 5. t Joel, i. 12. S Antiq. xiii. 13. o. h Vol. ii. p. (!7. i Vol. ii. p. 40—48. k Pt. II. chap. xxii. p. 379. 1 Vol. iv. p. 203. Shaw, ii. ccxiv PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VII. Hasselquist a observes that in this southern climate the trees are again in leaf about thebeginning of January, before those of the preceding year are entirely fallen off; and that, forthe quicker production of the leaves, most trees, except sycamores and willows, are furnishedwith small excrescences, lightly joined together, instead of buds, which nature could betterrefuse these trees than those of more northern regions. The former part of this observationis confirmed by other travellers. Shaw,b who travelled in Syria and Phoenicia in Decemberand January, says that the whole country looked, at that season, verdant and cheerful, and thewoods particularly, which were chiefly planted with the gall-bearing So also Bucking-ham,11 at the end of the month (30th), in Gilead, beyond Jordan, took notice of a stately andwide-spreading oak, which, like the rest of the
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