CHAP I.] CLIMATE, SEASONS, &C. 21 



1817. 



June 3. themselves, and the latter eat cob 

 and all. It is eaten, and is a very 

 delicious thing, in its half-ripe, or 

 milky state ; and these were the 

 " ears of corn" which the Pharisees 

 complained of the Disciples for 

 plucking off to eat on the Sabbath 

 Day ; for, how were they to eat 

 wheat ears, unless after the manner 

 of the " Noble Lord" above men 

 tioned ? Besides, the Indian Corn is 

 a native of Palestine. The French, 

 who, doubtless, brought it originally 

 from the Levant, call it Turkish 

 Corn. The Locusts, that John the 

 Baptist lived on, were not (as I used 

 to wonder at when a boy) the 

 noxious vermin that devoured the 

 land of Egypt ; but the bean, which 

 comes in the long pods borne by 

 the three-thorned Locust-tree, and 

 of which I have an abundance here. 

 The wild honey was the honey of 

 wild bees ; and the hollow trees 

 here contain swarms of them. The 

 trees are cut, sometimes, in winter, 

 and the part containing the swarm, 

 brought and placed near the house. 

 I saw this lately in Pennsylvania. 



