"Galilee," says Malte Brun, "would be a paradise were it inhabited by an industrious people under an enlightened government.
No land could be less dependent on foreign importation; it bore within itself every thing that could be necessary for the subsistence and comfort of a simple agricultural people.

The climate was healthy, the seasons regular; the former rains, which fell about October, after the vintage, prepared the ground for the seed; that latter, which prevailed during March and the beginning of April, made it grow rapidly.

Directly the rains ceased, the grain ripened with still greater rapidity, and was gathered in before the end of May.

The summer months were dry and very hot, but the nights cool and refreshed by copious dews.

In September, the vintage was gathered.