POMEGRANATE. 837 



The Canticles speak of the wine of Pomegranates; 

 and according to Sir John Chardin, considerable quan- 

 tities of wine are still made of the juice of Pomegranates, 

 in the East, particularly in Persia*. The Turks about 

 Aleppo frequently flavour their wine with the juice of 

 this fine fruit f. 



* See Harris's Nat. Hist, of the Bible, p. 314. 

 t Russell's Nat. Hist, of Aleppo, p. 107. 



