7. That the βότρυς τῆς Κύπρου, _botrus Cypri_, or Clusters of Cypress, should have any reference to the Cypress Tree, according to the original _Copher_, or Clusters of the noble Vine of _Cyprus_, which might be planted into _Judæa_, may seem to others allowable in some latitude. But there seeming some noble Odour to be implied in this place, you may probably conceive that the expression drives at the Κύπρος of _Dioscorides_, some oriental kind of _Ligustrum_ or _Alcharma_, which _Dioscorides_ and _Pliny_ mention under the name of Κύπρος and _Cyprus_, and to grow about _Ægypt_ and _Ascalon_, producing a sweet and odorate bush of Flowers, and out of which was made the famous _Oleum Cyprinum_. But why it should be rendred Camphyre your judgment cannot but doubt, who know that our Camphyre was unknown unto the Ancients, and no ingredient into any composition of great Antiquity: that learned men long conceived it a bituminous and fossile Body, and our latest experience discovereth it to be the resinous substance of a Tree, in _Borneo_ and _China_; and that the Camphyre that we use is a neat preparation of the same. [Sidenote: _Shittah Tree_, etc. Isa. 41. 19.] 8. When 'tis said in _Isaiah 41. I will plant in the wilderness the Cedar, the Shittah Tree, and the Myrtle and the Oil Tree, I will set in the Desart, the Firre Tree, and the Pine, and the Box Tree_: Though some doubt may be made of the Shittah Tree, yet all these Trees here mentioned being such as are ever green, you will more emphatically apprehend the mercifull meaning of God in this mention of no fading, but always verdant Trees in dry and desart places. [Sidenote: _Grapes of_ Eshcol. Num. 13. 23.] 9. _And they cut down a Branch with one cluster of Grapes, and they bare it between two upon a Staff, and they brought Pomegranates and Figgs._ This cluster of Grapes brought upon a Staff by the Spies, was an incredible sight, in _Philo Judæus_,[190] seem'd notable in the eyes of the Israelites, but more wonderfull in our own, who look onely upon Northern Vines. But herein you are like to consider, that the Cluster was thus carefully carried to represent it entire, without bruising or breaking; that this was not one Bunch but an extraordinary Cluster, made up of many depending upon one gross stalk. And however, might be parallel'd with the Eastern Clusters of _Margiana_ and _Caramania_, if we allow but half the expressions of _Pliny_ and _Strabo_, whereof one would lade a Curry or small Cart; and may be made out by the clusters of the Grapes of _Rhodes_ presented unto Duke _Radzivil_[191] each containing three parts of an Ell in compass, and the Grapes as big as Prunes. [190] ἄπιστος θέα. Philo. [191] Radzivil _in his Travels_. [Sidenote: _Ingred. of holy Perfume._ _Stacte_, etc. Exod. 30.34, 35.]