Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . de la Terrc Sainte. Par le R. P. Nau, de la Com-pagaie de Jesus. Paris, 1744. The journey was made in 1675. FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. 139 of truth in it or no, I cannot affirm ; but this I must say, thatthere are to this day such stones found in the fitld. Foras we went by, some of us went into it, and did gather a greatmany of them, that were in bigness, shape, and color, so hkeunto these cicers (by the Arabians
Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle . de la Terrc Sainte. Par le R. P. Nau, de la Com-pagaie de Jesus. Paris, 1744. The journey was made in 1675. FLIGHT INTO EGYPT. 139 of truth in it or no, I cannot affirm ; but this I must say, thatthere are to this day such stones found in the fitld. Foras we went by, some of us went into it, and did gather a greatmany of them, that were in bigness, shape, and color, so hkeunto these cicers (by the Arabians called ommos, and in Latincicer arietanum), that we could hardly distinguish them fromnatural ones. Another local memorial, like to the first of these, was found atMatarieh, on the border of Egypt, in a tree beneath which theholy family reposed upon their arrival in that country, andwhich hke the terebinth, bent down its branches in homage tothem. This tree, which is a sycamore, still exists, and we havesucceeded in finding a representation of it, being, we apprehend,the only one extant, in Dr. William Holt Yates work onEgypt,* from which the figure we give is copied. iNear this is. a celebrated well, called Ain Shems, or Fountain of the Sun, con-cerning which there is a superstitious legend of the Latins, thatit suddenly appeared to meet the wants of the holy family inthe retreat they had chosen. In order to visit this well, saysDr. Yates, we turned a little out of the beaten track, and en- * Modern History and Condition of D. London, 1843. By W. Holt Yates, 140 THIRTY-FIRST WEEK MONDAY tered a tolerabl} thick plantation on the right, where, in themidst of date trees, citrons, etc, we reclined beneath a vener-able sycamore, to be the identical tree whose wide-spreading branches afforded shelter to the holy fugitives fromthe parching rays of the sun. It is cut in all directions, andhas been denominated the tree of the Madona. Its shape issingular; it is very
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