198 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, largest fruit of the pomegranate. Its leaves 
V. ■y -.^ and stem, while living, exhibited a dark but 
vivid sky-blue colour. The description in the 
Note is taken from its appearance in a dried 
state. The Fersian Manna-plant, or Hedysarum 
Alhagi, which we had collected between Acre 
and Nazareth, also flourished here abundantly. 
This thorny vegetable is said to be the favourite 
food of the camel ' : it is found wild, in Syria, 
' Palcestine, Persia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Armenia, 
Georgia, and the islands of Tenos, Syra, and 
Cyprus. Tournefort, who considered it as a 
plant sui generis, has given a description of it, 
in his account of the Island of Syra'. Ramvolf, 
who discovered it in 1537, in the vicinity of 
Aleppo, and in Persia, often mentions it in his 
Geological Travcls^ As we advanced, our journey led, 
Features of j^i i ■ j. i'l 
Galilee. US through au open campaign country, until, 
upon our right, the guides shewed to us the 
Mount where it is believed that Christ preached 
to his Disciples that memorable Sermon % in 
which are concentrated the sum and substance 
(1) ForskaVs Flora, p. 13G. 
(2) Voyage du Z/ef«w^, torn. H. p. 4. Lyon, 1717. 
(3) See/>p. 84, 152, 206. Lmid. 1693. Also, the end of Mr. Ray't 
Collection of Travels, " Stufium Orientalium rariorum CalalogmJ'' 
Alhagi Maurorum. 
(4) Matthew, ch. v, vi, vii. 
