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SETTLEMENT.
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handsome ears, but he has succeeded in producing
great quantities of fine potatoes, which, till intro-
duced by him, were unknown in Palestine ; and
likewise many other garden vegetables. We, our-
selves, tested the quality of his potatoes, and found
them excellent. Ho stated that, so far, he had
been successful in every kind of fruit and vegetable
which he had attempted to cultivate.
Besides proving to his brethren the agricultural
capabilities of Palestine, Meshullam expresses a hope
that by setting before the ignorant Moslems of the
adjacent country, the advantages of a more settled
and regular mode of life, he may, peradventure, be
instrumental in leading them to abandon their lazy
■wandering habits, and to embrace both tbe faith
and practice of their Christian neighbors. "With-
out expressing any opinion respecting the general
correctness of his views, or the purity and disinter-
estedness of his motives—my opportunities of obser-
vation having been altogether insufficient to warrant
my coming to any decision on these points—I
must say, that I regard his experiment as one of
great interest, and well deserving tbe attention
of those who desire to extend the blessings of
Christianity among the unhappy Jews and benight-
ed Moslems of Palestine. All that I have seen
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handsome ears, but he has succeeded in producing
great quantities of fine potatoes, which, till intro-
duced by him, were unknown in Palestine ; and
likewise many other garden vegetables. We, our-
selves, tested the quality of his potatoes, and found
them excellent. Ho stated that, so far, he had
been successful in every kind of fruit and vegetable
which he had attempted to cultivate.
Besides proving to his brethren the agricultural
capabilities of Palestine, Meshullam expresses a hope
that by setting before the ignorant Moslems of the
adjacent country, the advantages of a more settled
and regular mode of life, he may, peradventure, be
instrumental in leading them to abandon their lazy
■wandering habits, and to embrace both tbe faith
and practice of their Christian neighbors. "With-
out expressing any opinion respecting the general
correctness of his views, or the purity and disinter-
estedness of his motives—my opportunities of obser-
vation having been altogether insufficient to warrant
my coming to any decision on these points—I
must say, that I regard his experiment as one of
great interest, and well deserving tbe attention
of those who desire to extend the blessings of
Christianity among the unhappy Jews and benight-
ed Moslems of Palestine. All that I have seen