A lecture on the geography of plants / By John Barton.

  • John Barton
Date:
1827
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    been first brought into this country during the reign of Elizabeth. To this list may be added the Horse Chesnut, the Lilac, the Sweet Jas- mine, the Melon, and the Cucumber. That the Melon and Cucumber were raised in Egypt at a very remote period, appears from the com- plaints of the Israelites, when they murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. “We remember the fish,” said they, “which we did eat in Egypt freely; the Cucumbers, and the Melons, and the Leeks, and the Onions, and the Garlick And in another place they speak of some kinds of fruit now cultivated: “ Wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place ? It is no place of seedor of Figs, or of Vines, or of Pomegranates, neither is there any water to drink The “ wilderness” in which these complaints were uttered by the children of Israel, forms a part of that great sandy desert which bounds to the west the fruitful plain of the Euphrates, extending thence southward over a considerable part of Arabia. In this desert are still to be seen the ruins of Palmyra, supposed to be the city built by Solomon, and named by him Tad- mor in the Wilderness. Between the desert and the Mediterranean Sea is the “ Land of * Numbers, xi. 5. *j- Ibid, xx, 5.