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THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS. CHAP. XI. 



Tlie trees of ancient Egypt have been already 

 mentioned.t I shall therefore only add, in con- 

 firmation of their having been known in the early 

 times of the Pharaohs, that the paintings of the 

 tombs represent the date, dom, sycomore, pomegra- 

 nate t, ])ersea, tamarisk §, and Periploca Secamone: 



* In the same chapter Pliny sa\s ebony is not produced in Eaypt. 



t Vol. II p. 181. f/ seq., and III. 168". 



X Conf. Numb. xx. 5. " of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates." 



<5 Vide infra on the sacred plants in Chap. XIV. 



