p(J Of the Mofaic Pavement 



The Pa/m So much thcii with Resard to the Annuals that are here 



Tree • • 



depided. If Botany likewife is regarded, we have here the 

 Figures of the Ta/m Tree; both of the common Species (a) 



The i^'-'w-that grows up in one Stem ; and of the Doom (b), or K«x.<o(pop3y, 



The/V'>. (p. 6i.) that was forked. We have the Mufa likewife (c), 

 which is remarkably diftin^uilhed by large verdant Leaves. 

 The Fruit of it is fuppofed, by fome Commentators, to be the 

 Tftidaim or Mandrakes, (Trav. p. 369.) as others have taken 

 the Leaves for thofe, which our firft Parents ufed inftead of 

 Aprons or Girdles. Gen. 3.7. 



The Lotus. The Lotus (d), that extraordinary vegetable Symbol in 

 the jEg^'p/i^^ Mythology, {Trav. p. 4.01.) isftillmore frequent 

 than the Talm Tree and the Mufa ; and, as it is here repre- 

 fented, agrees in the Rotundity of it's Leaf and rofaceous 

 Flower, with the Njmph^a aquatica. 



The syco. The large fpreading Tree (e), that prefents itfelf fo often 

 p,f(^'i. 2.^'- to the Eye, is, in all Probability, the Sycamine or Sycomorey 

 which was one of the common Timber Trees oi Egypt, as well 

 as of the H. Land\ The Mummjy Che&:s', the facred Boxes; 

 the rB^cTfely/wcTct ; the Models of Ships ; and a variety of other 

 Curiolities, found in the Catacombs, are all of them made of 

 this Wood. Now, as the Grain and Texture of it is remarka- 

 bly coarfe and fpongy, it could therefore ftand, in no Com- 

 petition at all, (as it is obferved, 7/- 9- lo-") with the C(?<^^r, 

 for Beauty and Ornament. 



The cajff!a Abovc the Sycomores, within the Precin6ts, as it may be 

 conjedlured, o^ Ethiopia, there is another large fhady Tree (f) ; 

 diftinguiflied by two yellowifli Clufters, as they feem to be, of 

 Flowers ; and by the khioen, which is running along one of 

 the Branches. This then may be the CaJJia Fiftula \ whole 

 Flowers are of this Colour ; grow in this Fafhion ; and yield a 

 molt delightful Fragrancy. 



■:? >«Jff^fi)f. Diofc. 1. I. cap. 182. or Sycamine CDlOpW Skamom. Pf.7^- 47- i Kings lo. 27. 

 1 C7;)-on, 27. 28. Amos 7.1^. Luke 17. 6. 19.4. i^. The Sjcomores are cut down, but we 

 %inll change them into Cedars. 



2 Capo. Fiftula ab Arabibus inventa, & a recentioribus Groecis, ut Acluario, ^ewiia (Akouv* 

 nominatur. Fabamlndicamvetcr\ira, ut Arifiobuli, Valerius Cordits credidit. Sdiquam j^gyp- 

 tiam Theophrap Hift. 18. nonnulli cenfent. C. Bauh. Pin. p. 403. Being originally an 

 Ethiopian ?hnt, it might not have fallen under the Cognizance of Theophrajius, as it was not 

 known in Egypt at that Time. 



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