ASSYRIAN MONUMENTS. 



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pine-apple was introduced into the old world after the 

 discovery of America. 



It struck me that the pine-apple-like object might 

 be taken to mean a fingered citron, and that some 

 superstitious notion may have been attached to the 

 citron, or at all events to that form of it, which 

 divides itself at one end into finger-like processes. 



Fig. 29 shows the ordinary citron of Ceylon, the 

 fingered citron of India, and one of those pine-apple- 

 like objects, carried so pompously in a procession of 

 men, who carry in addition other sorts of fruit, such as 

 bunches of dates, strings of pomegranates, etc. ; no 

 doubt all choice fruits intended as presents, either for 

 the king or his ministers. 



Fig. 29. — ((7) Citron of Ceylon, much reduced ; 1 [b] fingered citron 

 of India, much reduced ; '^ (c) one of the pine-apple-like things 

 carried in the hand.^ 



' See pi. 151, Oranges and Lemons of India and Ceylon. 



^ See pis. 139 and 140, ditto. 



^ PI. 9, Layard's ' Monuments of Nineveh,' new series. 



