The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / By Alex. Russell, M. D.

  • Russell, Alexander, 1715?-1768.
Date:
MDCCCLVI [i.e. 1756]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The natural history of Aleppo, and parts adjacent. Containing a description of the city, and the principal natural productions in its neighbourhood; together with an account of the climate, inhabitants, and diseases; particularly of the plague, with the methods used by the Europeans for their preservation / By Alex. Russell, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    chickling (e), fmall vetch (/), fefamum, ricinus, hemp, a green kidney bean (g), called by the natives mafh, and much eat 3 mufk melon (h) water melon (/), a fmall fort of cucumber called ajour, fennel-flower [k)y fenu¬ greek (/), baftard-faftron Turkey millet. About Aleppo they fow no oats, their horfes being all fed with barley; but near Antioch, and on the coaft of Syria^ I have feen fome few fields of them. 1 * C- Near the city tobacco [n) is planted in the gardens only, but in the villages about ten or fifteen miles off a large quantity is planted in the fields, and -all the hills from Shogre to Latachia produce fiich plenty of this vegetable that it makes no inconfiderable branch of trade, particularly with Egypt. The harveft commences with the barley about the beginning of May^ and that, as well as the wheat, is ge¬ nerally all reaped by the twentieth of the fame month. The more wet the fpring the later the harveft and (<?) Lathyrus fativus flore purpureo, C. B. P. 344. (/) Vicia minima cum filiquis glabris Inft. R. H. 397. (g) Phafeolus minimus fru&u virido ovato. (b) Melo vulgaris, C. B. P. 310. Melo magnus cortice virente laevi femine parvo, J. B. i. 244. (/) Anguria citrullus di&a, C. B. P. 312. (i) Nigella flore minore fimplice candido, C. B. P. 145. (/) Fcenumgrecum fativum, C. B. P. 348. (m) Carthamus officinarum flore croceolnft. R.H. 457. («) Nicotiana major latifolia, C. B.P. 169. D \ th$