HISTORICAL. 7 



cheese of kine," to eat. Zophar, in the 20th chapter of 

 Job, 17th verse, declares of the wicked hypocrite, who 

 "hath swallowed down riches," that his triumph is short, 

 and "he shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of 

 honey and butter" which, we inter, are designed for the 

 righteous; and Job (29th chapter and Gth verse) bemoans 

 the loss of his former prosperity, u \vhen I washed my 

 steps with butter." In the ooth Psalm, 24th verse, David 

 says of his enemy that "the words of his mouth were 

 smoother than butter." Solomon appears to have under- 

 stood the whole business. In Proverbs, ;30th chapter and 

 33d verse, he exclaims: "Surely, the churning of milk 

 bringeth forth butter." Isaiah, in the 7th chapter and 

 loth verse, declares of the coming Immanuel, that "butter 

 and honey shall he eat;" and again (22d verse) that "for 

 the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat 

 butter." 



IN SOUTHERN EUROPE. 



Chambers says: " In ancient times, the Hebrews seem 

 to have made copious use of butter as food ; but the 

 Greeks and the Romans used it only as an ointment in 

 their baths, and it is probable that the Greeks obtained 

 their knowledge of the subject from the Scythians, Thra- 

 cians, and Phrygians, whilst the Romans obtained it of 

 Germany." This would indicate that the Germans at 

 that time were engaged in dairying. But, even now, in 

 Southern Europe, butter is sparingly used, and in Italy, 

 Spain, Portugal and Southern France, it is sold by apoth- 

 ecaries as an ointment. Dairying is now extensively 

 carried on in all the countries of Northern Europe. 



