 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 550 pages
...sometimes full of dust ; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect (tenthredo) which converts the whole of the inside into dust,...still greater authority of Linnaeus, in his Flora Pala'slina? No such thing. M. Seetzen, also a man of science and the most modern of all travellers,... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1814 - 636 pages
...sometimes full of dust; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect, Im thri:du, which converts the whole of the inside into dust,...of Hasselquist, and the still greater authority of Linnœus, in his Flora Palästina? No such thing. M. Seetzen, also a man of science and the most modern... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 548 pages
...dust, leaving nothing but the tjnd entire, without causing it to lose any of its colour." Who woatd not imagine, after this, that the question had been...still greater authority of Linnaeus, in his Flora Palceslina? No such thing. M. Seetzen, also a man of science and the moat modern of all travellers,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 398 pages
...sometimes full of dust, but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect (tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust,...entire, without causing it to lose any of its colour." M. Seetzen, differing from Hasselquist in opinion, supposes the apple of Sodom to be the fruit of a... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...apples are sometimes full of dust ; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect, which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rhind entire, without causing it to lose any of its colour. M. Seetzen supposes it is the fruit of... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1835 - 378 pages
...sometimes full of dust; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect (tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust,...of Hasselquist, and the still greater authority of Linneus, in his Flora Palcestina f No such thing. M. Seetzen, also a man of science, and the most modern... | |
 | George Bush - 1839 - 738 pages
...apples are sometimes full of dust ; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect, ^% ~ w`k v Z $ 7# _ʧ чի _ Τ ? [ g 躿Y r. ` ʣ H | <. b: n 2 o rW M. Seetzen supposes it is the fruit of u tree which grows on the plain of El Gor, near the southern... | |
 | Eli Smith - 1841 - 708 pages
...occasionally, as the same naturalist remarks, " when the fruit is punctured by an insect (Tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without any loss of colour."1 We saw the Solanum and the 'Osher growing side by side ; the former presenting... | |
 | Eli Smith - 1841 - 708 pages
...occasionally, as the same naturalist remarks, " when the fruit is punctured by an insect (Tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without any loss of colour."1 We saw the Solanum and the 'Osher growing side by side ; the former presenting... | |
 | Eli Smith - 1841 - 712 pages
...occasionally, as the same naturalist remarks, " when the fruit is punctured by an insect (Tenthredo), which converts the whole of the inside into dust, leaving nothing but the rind entire, without any loss of colour."1 We saw the Solanum and the 'Osher growing side by side ; the former presenting... | |
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It is found in great abundance," says he, "round Jericho, in the Tallies near the Jordan, and in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea. It is true that these apples are sometimes full of dust ; but this appears only when the fruit is attacked by an insect... 
