the rest of the fruits as they become ripe together, through the whole of the 
year.” Such perpetual productiveness almost throughout the year is only 
obtainable under a tropical sun — never in temperate zones. Within the 
tropics blossoms and ripe fruits are commonly seen on the same trees, and are 
very conspicuous on orange and lemon trees. Galilee, Samaria, and J udea 
had a rich and fruitful soil, full of trees of all sorts — the olive, the vine, and 
the palm-tree. “ They have abundance of fruit trees, and are full of fruit, 
both that which grows wild, and that which is the effect of cultivation.” 
“ Take,” said Jacob, “ of the best fruits in the land and carry down a present, 
a little balm, and spices, with myrrh, nuts, and almonds.” Where but 
within the tropics could we see these productions and such a prolific scene in 
the open air l “ For the land, whither thou goest, is not as the land of 
Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst 
it with thy foot as a garden of herbs : but the land, whither ye go to possess 
it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven : a 
land which the Lord thy God careth for.” “ I will give you the rain of your 
land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest 
gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil. And I will send grass in thy 
fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.” “ It is a land that 
floweth with milk and honey.” — Deut. xi. The two wet seasons are peculiarly 
tropical. In the temperate zones we have summer and winter ; in the 
tropics, wet and dry seasons. The former climate of Palestine must have 
been somewhat analogous to that of the southern part of Arabia bordering 
the Red Sea, such as we now find it at Medina, Mecca, and at Aden, where 
sweet spices, balm, and myrrh still grow. In the days of Alexander the 
Great, frankincense and myrrh were produced near Gaza. Mr. Warington 
asserts that “wheat and olive will not grow in the tropics” I beg to state 
that he has been misled as regards these productions, as well as on various 
other points. I have grown in the very tropical country which Humboldt 
visited, and within 5° of the equator, grapes, pomegranates, figs, olives, 
oranges, coffee, pine-apples, corn, &c. I have seen the same variety of 
productions in Ceylon, Penang, Singapore, &c. In New Granada, on the 
plains of Bogota, within 4° of the equator, wheat and barley are cultivated 
in large quantities. Wheat can be produced at 3,000 feet high. In Egypt 
it is grown at a low elevation during the winter, though not in the hot 
weather. I hope Mr. Warington will excuse me from referring to the 
arguments founded on what may be gathered from “ Johnson’s Physical 
Atlas,” as they must have originated from a misconception, in connection 
with the configuration of the surface of the earth, and the general data 
intended to explain why certain products are more cultivated for commercial 
purposes in some places than in others in similar climates. It may be 
thought strange that not only wheat, but flax , should thrive in the hot and 
tropical part of Egypt at low elevations, as well as in the cold regions of 
Russia as far as 64° lat. N. In Egypt flax (as well as wheat) is sown in 
December, in the fields just quitted by the waters of the Nile, and it is 
harvested in April before the hot weather sets in. In Russia, it is sown in 
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