...was an observation of mineral colours that made Moses add, when he was praising the land of eyes, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass (5). It was natural to assimilate different springs to the eyes of different animals to describe the...

...9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thiiit; in it: a 19 10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for »hr good land which...

...were walled and embattled for war. The character of this land of promise, given by Jehovah, viz. " whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass," Deut. viii. 9, gives us a definitive idea of the quality of its building materials : stone ever abounds...

...in those, as we have before seen, it was promised that the country should abound ; it was to be " a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass," or copper. (Deut. viii, 9.) We read of coals with which they made Jires, as if they were mineral coals...

...; a land, wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it ; a land, whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." In this sense, then, we may lawfully take this passage, and thus taken it may be considered as a striking...

...honey" being extracted from " the rock and oil from the flinty rock ;" and of their mineral riches " whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass" (copper). The former statement was not a mere poetical fiction, for owing to the skill and perseverance...

...*r"*^°"™' 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass. 10 m When thou hast eaten, and art full, then thou shalt »j_ <*•»«•"• bless the LORD thy God...

..." a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness ; thou shalt not lack any thing in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." The Saturday previous to my meeting Lord Darlington's hounds at York Gate, rather a singular circumstance...

...wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." And yet between this country, so rich in temporal good, and the dreary desert they had left behind,...

...and honey; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates, and oil olives; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." Deut. viii. 7—9; xi. 9—11. And Rabshakeh, the Assyrian, describes it as like his own, " a land...