And though many Grains are commonly lost which come not to sprouting or earing, yet the same is also verified in measure; as that one Bushel should produce a hundred, as is exemplified by the Corn in _Gerar_;[210] _Then Isaac sowed in that Land, and received in that year an hundred fold_. That is, as the Chaldee explaineth it, _a hundred for one_, when he measured it. And this _Pliny_ seems to intend, when he saith of the fertile Byzacian Territory before mentioned, _Ex uno centeni quinquaginta modii redduntur_. And may be favourably apprehended of the fertility of some grounds in _Poland_; wherein, after the account of _Gaguinus_, from Rye sowed in _August_, come thirty or forty Ears, and a Man on Horseback can scarce look over it. In the Sabbatical Crop of _Judæa_, there must be admitted a large increase, and probably not short of this centesimal multiplication: For it supplied part of the sixth year, the whole seventh, and eighth untill the Harvest of that year. [210] Gen. 26. 12. The _seven years of plenty in Ægypt_ must be of high increase; when, by storing up but the fifth part, they supplied the whole Land, and many of their neighbours after: for it is said,[211] the Famine was in all the Land about them. And therefore though the causes of the Dearth in _Ægypt_ be made out from the defect of the overflow of _Nilus_, according to the Dream of _Pharaoh_; yet was that no cause of the scarcity of the Land of _Canaan_, which may rather be ascribed to the want of the former and latter rains, for some succeeding years, if their Famine held time and duration with that of _Ægypt_; as may be probably gather'd from that expression of _Joseph_,[212] _Come down unto me [into Ægypt] and tarry not, and there will I nourish you: (for yet there are five years of Famine) lest thou and thy Household, and all that thou hast come to poverty_. [211] Gen. 41. 56. [212] Gen. 45. 9, 11. How they preserved their Corn so long in _Ægypt_ may seem hard unto Northern and moist Climates, except we consider the many ways of preservation practised by antiquity, and also take in that handsome account of _Pliny_; What Corn soever is laid up in the Ear, it taketh no harm keep it as long as you will; although the best and most assured way to keep Corn is in Caves and Vaults under ground, according to the practice of _Cappadocia_ and _Thracia_. In _Ægypt_ and _Mauritania_ above all things they look to this, that their Granaries stand on high ground; and how drie so ever their Floor be, they lay a course of Chaff betwixt it and the ground. Besides, they put up their Corn in Granaries and Binns together with the Ear. And _Varro_ delivereth that Wheat laid up in that manner will last fifty years; Millet an hundred; and Beans so conserved in a Cave of _Ambracia_, were known to last an hundred and twenty years; that is, from the time of King _Pyrrhus_, unto the Pyratick War under the conduct of _Pompey_.