Excerpt from The Natural History of the Bible: Being a Review of the Physical Geography, Geology and Meteorology of the Holy Land; With a Description of Every Animal and Plant Mentioned in Holy Scripture Deeply impressed with the conviction that no allu sion in God's Inspired Word can be held unimportant, or its illustration trivial, the writer sends out this little book, with an earnest prayer that it may assist in some slight degree to the profitable study of the Bible, and thus tend to the greater glory of God.