...scoffs at human toil. as at least six miles long. The mills (says he) for pressing and grinding tlie olives, are in the town. The oil is deposited in large...the areas before the houses. The crops had failed five years successively when we arrived. The cause assigned was a northerly wind, called Greco-Tramontane,...

...Cellars of oil. • DR. CHANDLER (Trav. in Greece, p. 126.) says, the modern Greeks keep their oil in large earthen jars, sunk in the ground, in the areas before their houses. The custom might obtain among the Jews ; it is certain they sometimes buried their oil...

...follows: " The olivegroves are nsw, as anciently, a principal source of the riches of Athens. . . . The mills for pressing and grinding the olives are in the town. The oil is deposited in large earthern jars, sunk * S«e hi Gardener's Kalcndar. - P. 219. in the ground, in the areas before the...

...* . Cellars of oil. Dn. Ck^NDLER (Trav. in Greece, p. 126.) says, the modern Greeks keep their oil in large earthen jars, sunk in the ground, in the areas before their houses. The custom might obtain among the Jews ; it is certain they, sometimes buried their oil...

...surrounded it and its porche«. Dr. GEDDES. 3427. The cellars of oif] The modern Greeks keep their oil in large earthen jars, sunk in the ground, in the areas before their houses. Dr. CHANDLER'S Tran, in Greece, p. 126. 3428. [I Chron. xxix. 7. Ten thousand drams']...

...of the human body is insufficient for an effectual extraction of the oil28. The oil when expressed is deposited in large earthen jars, sunk in the ground in the areas by the houses : that for daily use is kept in cruises. The Hebrews used common oil with their food,...

...doubtless laid up in the same kind of repositories. Harmer, of oil,] The modern Greeks keep their oil in large earthen jars, sunk in the ground, in the areas before their houses. Dr. Chandler. The ancient Jews appear to have had the same custom of burying their oil...

...Cellars of oil.] ' Dr. Chandler (Trav. in Greece, p. 126) says, " the modern Greeks keep their oil in large earthen jars, sunk in the ground, in the areas before their houses." The custom might obtain among the Jews ; it is certain they sometimes buried their oil...

...place he observes, "The olive-groves are now, as anciently, a principal source of the riches of Athens. The mills for pressing and grinding the olives are...deposited in large earthen jars sunk in the ground in the area before the houses. The crops had failed five years successively when we arrived; the cause assigned...

...which they pour water for the cattle. . . The olive groves are now, as anciently, a principal source of the riches of Athens. The wood of these trees,...the ground in the areas before the houses .. . The honey as well as the oil of Attica, was anciently in high repute. Mount Hymettus furnishes a succession...