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Updated: May 17, 2025
It is a region beyond the limits of the true palm-tree; but this has its representative in the palmetto "latanier" of the French the Sabal palm of the botanist, of more than one species, forming in many places the underwood, and giving a tropical character to the forest.
The memory of his first victories is perpetuated in the name, Downpatrick, that is: the Dwelling of Patrick. where Dicu son of Tricem, chief of the district, gave him a tract of land to build a place of meeting and prayer for his disciples; while the church was being built, the chief offered his barn as a meeting-place, an incident commemorated in the name of Saul, on a hill above the town, a name softened from Sabal, "a barn."
To the laborers and men of burden, the Ish Sabal, and to the craftsmen, corresponding with the first and second degrees of more modern Masonry, but little secret knowledge was confided. Like the aspirants in the lesser Mysteries of paganism, their instructions were simply to purify and prepare them for a more solemn ordeal, and for the knowledge of the sublimest truths.
INVESTITURE, RITE OF. That part of the ceremony of initiation which consists of clothing the candidate masonically. It is a symbol of purity. ISH CHOTZEB. Hebrew בצה שיא, hewers of stones. The Fellow Crafts at the temple of Solomon. ISH SABAL. Hebrew לבס שיא, bearers of burdens. The Apprentices at the temple of Solomon.
If we then examine the Miocene formations of the same country, exotic forms become more abundant, especially the palms, whether they belong to the European or American fan-palms, Chamaerops and Sabal, or to the more tropical family of the date-palms or Phoenicites, which last are conspicuous in the Lower Miocene beds of Central Europe.
The proofs of a warmer climate, and the excess of arborescent over herbaceous plants, and of evergreen trees over deciduous species, are characters common to the whole flora, but which are intensified as we descend to the inferior deposits. Sabal major, Unger sp. Vevay. Nearly all the plants at Monod are contained in three layers of marl separated by two of soft sandstone.
I behold vegetable forms of tropic aspect, with broad shining foliage the Sabal palm, the anona, the water-loving tupelo, the catalpa with its large trumpet flowers, the melting liquidambar, and the wax-leaved mangolia.
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