Observations On Various Passages of Scripture Placing Them in a New Light And a
Observations On Various Passages of Scripture Placing Them in a New Light And a
Thomas Harmer
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160. The wheat, then, is several dftys later thaa the bai^ley. t"This, » says Dr. Russell, in a MS. Note, "isear/iVvthan at Aleppo. '* IN THR HOLY LAND. IJt The vintage at Aleppo begins as soon, lasting from the 15th of September to the same day of Novem- ber, according to Egmont and Hejman, v. Ii. P. 848. So Shaw says, the grape begins to ripen in Barbary the lat- ter end of July, ^ and is ready for the vintage in Septem- ber, p. 146. And we must be content to make our estimate accord* ingly, ...and consider the accounts of Aleppo and Algiers as nearly descriptive of what happens in the Holy Land, un- til a more particular and accurate description of it shall be given us by some curious observer. F * The account of AlbertuS Aquensls, Gesta Dei, p. 176, may be under- stood so as not to contradict this representation. The siege of Jerusalem by the Crusade army, in 1099, is said to have been begun June the 7tl), atd to have ended July the 15lh, Gesta Dei, p. 750, and 7. 12, consequently be- fore grapes ripen, according to what happens in Barbary ; yet Albertus Aquensis, complaining of the great want of water among the besiegers iu the abovementioned page, observes, there was always there a great plenty of grapes and of wine among the chiefs, and those that had money.
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