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<div class="head">Physical Features of Palestine</div>
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<td class="top" style="border-width:1px;">Month</td>
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<td class="top" style="border-width:1px 0px 1px 0px;">Progress of the Seasons</td>
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<td class="top" style="border-width:1px;">Wind</td>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#efefef"><td class="vrs"><b>Jan.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Country verdant with young corn, groves and meadows adorned with many flowers. Oranges begin to ripen.</td><td class="vrs">N.W., N., N.E</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Heavy rains; thunder storms; occasionally snow, and thin ice; ground never frozen.</td></tr>
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<tr height="70px" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td class="vrs"><b>Feb.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Amond tree and peach tree in blossom; in the lower and warmer parts, orange tree laden with ripe fruit.</td><td class="vrs">N.W., N., N.E</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Heavy rains, etc.. in Jan and Feb, called by the Arabs the "fathers of rain."</td></tr>
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<tr height="70px" bgcolor="#efefef"><td class="vrs"><b>Mar.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">All trees in full leaf, many in bloom. In the lowlands, orange and lemon trees laden with fruits. Palm tree blossoms; barley ripening.</td><td class="vrs">W.</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Rain, hurricanes, sometimes snow; rivers much swollen.</td></tr>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td class="vrs"><b>Apr.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Fruits of oleaster and white mulberry ripen. Barley harvest. Wheat harvest beginning</td><td class="vrs">S.</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Occasionally rain; sometimes Sirocco from the S.E.</td></tr>
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<tr height="70px" bgcolor="#efefef"><td class="vrs"><b>May </b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Principal harvest month, especially of wheat. Apricots and apples ripen (in Jordan valley vegetation withered and burnt up).</td><td class="vrs">S.</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Rain very seldom; from this to September no rain occurs.</td></tr>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td class="vrs"><b>Jun.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Amonds ripe. (Beyrouk honey of the Jordan valley collected in May, June and July.) Grapes begin to ripen.</td><td class="vrs">E.</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Frequent hot winds (Simoons); air motionless.</td></tr>
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<tr height="70px" bgcolor="#efefef"><td class="vrs"><b>Jul.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Various fruits: apples, pears, plums, etc. Grapes fully ripe. Pumpkins. Harvest of corn in the higher mountains.</td><td class="vrs">E.</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Greatest heat in general; sky serene.</td></tr>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td class="vrs"><b>Aug.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Principal fruit month. Grapes, figs, etc.; in the plains, walnut and olive.</td><td class="vrs">E.</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Dew begins to fall; at times large and dense clouds (Nile Clouds).</td></tr>
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<tr height="70px" bgcolor="#efefef"><td class="vrs"><b>Sep.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Comencement of vintage. Harvest of the dourra and maize. Cotton and pomegranate begins.</td><td class="vrs">N.E</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Much lightning without thunder <SPAN style="color:#990000;"><i>[Editor's Note: This is probably referring to heat lightning]</i></SPAN>; very rarely rain.</td></tr>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td class="vrs"><b>Oct.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">End of vintage. Gathering of cotton. Ploughing and sowing commence. Pistachio-nuts ripen.</td><td class="vrs">N.E</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Dews very heavy; autumnal rains begins.</td></tr>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#efefef"><td class="vrs"><b>Nov.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Month of ploughing and sowing. Rice harvest. Fig tree laden with fruit. Orange and citron tree in bloom.</td><td class="vrs">N.W., N., N.E</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Rainy month. Thunder storms. Rains from the W. or S.W.</td></tr>
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<tr height="60px" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td class="vrs"><b>Dec.</b></td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px;">Trees lose their leaves. The brown and desolate plains and deserts become green pastures.</td><td class="vrs">N.W., N., N.E</td><td class="vrs" style="text-align:left;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;">Rainy, etc. In Dec, Jan and Feb greatest amount of rain in the year.</td></tr>
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<p class="bibliobox"><strong>Bibliographic Information:</strong><br>Author: Nevin, Alfred, Ed., <em>et al</em>.<br>Title: "Physical Features of Palestine"<br>Work: <em>The Parallel Bible</em><br>Date Added: 1 Jul 2002</p>
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