THE CORN-FIELD. 27 



number of persons interested in the subject were 

 present on the occasion. While the operation was 

 going on, a gentleman who was standing by, ob- 

 served some grains of wheat fall out of the linen 

 folds, and picked them up, with the intention of 

 planting them, and seeing whether they still re- 

 tained the power of vegetation. This he did; 

 one seed grew, soon became a healthy plant, 

 and produced stalks, each 

 of which bore from five 

 to seven heads, exactly 

 answering the description 

 given in the account of 

 Pharaoh's dream. The 

 annexed wood-cut is co- 

 pied from an ear which 

 grew from seed produced 

 by this very plant. 



Now, although we do 

 not exactly want such 

 evidence to the truth of 

 the Bible, as is offered 

 by the above anecdotes, 

 yet, to say the least, it is 

 very interesting to be 

 able to examine records 

 of past ages, which nature 

 has had in her own keep- 

 ing for such immense pe- 

 riods ; and it is no less in- 

 structive, for we may hence learn that there may 

 be many things in the Bible seemingly strange 

 and unaccountable, only because we have no clue 

 to enable us to enquire into them, and so under- 

 stand their meaning and application. 



EGYPTIAN WHEAT. 



