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in 1833, and it deserves to be reprinted again. The Holy Land 

 has been frequently visited during the last quarter of a century. 

 There is another work on this subject, viz. ' Illustrations of the 

 Holy Scriptures/ by George Paxton, in two volumes (Edin. 

 1819). This work does not add much to the science of Biblical 

 Botany. 



Foreign works on this interesting subject are numerous. Be- 

 sides the w^ork of Olaus Celsius, the most learned of all the 

 learned expositors of sacred phijtology, and Lemnius, who is 

 rather a commentator on Holy Scripture than a critic on the 

 botany of the Bible, translated by T. Newton, there is an 

 'Arboretum Biblicum/ by J. H. Ursinus, printed at Norimburg 

 in 1663. Is this the prototype of the work on sacred botany by 

 the present celebrated botanical professor in the University of 

 Edinburgh ? To this may be added a treatise entitled, ' Phyto- 

 logia Sacra,^ by Adr. Cocquius, a Flemish clergyman, quarto, 

 Ulessing, 1664. ' Hierophyticon,' by Matth. Hiller, a theologian 

 of Wiirtemberg, in quarto, 1725, is a very useful work on this 

 subject. 



The most elaborate work on the plants of Holy Scripture (O. 

 Celsius's is the most erudite) is by Jac. Scheuchzer, a most in- 

 defatigable naturalist, whose writings have helped to immortal- 

 ize his native country and himself both. Next to the illustrious 

 Haller, will this namo stand in the annals of Swiss botany. His 

 magnum opus, 'Physica Sacra,' appeared in four volumes folio, in 

 several languages ; the best edition is in Latin, printed at Augs- 

 burg in 1731. Editions in French and German, in eight volumes, 

 appeared in 1734. In this great work all the Bible-plants are 

 described and delineated, Avith judicious critical remarks and 

 lucid comments. The same learned author also published a physi- 

 cal history of the Book of Job, in the German language. There 

 is an edition of this work, printed at Ziirich in 1721, and another 

 at the same place in 1740, both in quarto. 



Sir Thomas Brown, the celebrated physician and author, in 

 his ' Observations- on certain Plants mentioned in Scripture,' 

 already noticed, has some very judicious remarks on these critical 

 plants, as they may be called. For example, he states that 

 " Hyssop is taken for that plant which cleansed the leper, being 

 a well-scented and very abstersive simple, etc. ... It differs 

 from ours, as Belonius hath observed," etc. j also that " Heath 



