...mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces which supported the soil on the steep declivities, hare given full scope to the rains, which have left many...where formerly were vineyards and cornfields.' It is, moreover, according to all experience, that the rainfall itself should be diminished by the loss of...

...which once covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces which supported the soil on steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains,...rock where formerly were vineyards and corn-fields." In Smith's " Dictionary of the Bible," Vol. I., p. 28, Art. •• Agriculture," It Is said, " The...

...which once covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces, which supported the soil on steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains, which have left many tracts of bare rocks, where formerly were vineyards and corn-fields." " The forest of Hareth," says Stanley, " and...

...destruction of the wood that formerly covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces that supported the soil upon steep declivities, have given...evils of drought, and doomed some particular tracts .o absolute sterility. Besides these, I do not recognize any permanent or invincible ause of barrenness,...

...ever making large allowance for the observable aud wide-spread effects of the prophetic malediction. It is quite certain, I think, that some portions of...rain, and so have exposed the whole country, in a peculiar degree, to the evils of drought, and doomed some particular tracts to absolute sterility....

...once covered the mountains, and the utter of wood. neglect of the terraces which supported the soil on steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains,...rock, where formerly were vineyards and cornfields'." As in Greece, since the fall of the plane-trees which once shaded the bare landscape of Attica, so...

...Dertmccovered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the Uonofwoodterraces which supported the soil on steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains,...tracts of bare rock, where formerly were vineyards and cornfields."1 It is probable too that, as in Europe generally, since the disappearance of the German...

..."which once covered the mountains, and the utter neglect of the terraces, which supported the soil on steep declivities, have given full scope to the rains, which have left many tracts of bare rocks, where formerly were vineyards and corn-fields." "The forest of Hareth," says Stanley, * " The...

...we subjoin those of a distinguished American traveller on the sterility of Palestine : — " It ia quite certain, I think, that some portions of Palestine,...greater degree, to the evils of drought, and doomed eome particular tracts to absolute sterility. Besides these, I do not recognise any permanent and invincible...

...those of a distinguished American traveller on the sterility of Palestine :- •" H 263 APPENDIX. 2G6 is quite certain, I think, that some portions of Palestine,...scope to the rains, which have left many tracts of b&re rock where formerly were vineyards and cornfields. It is likely, too, that the disappearance of...