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Reference: Poplar

Hastings

The poplar may easily have furnished Jacob with white rods. There are two kinds of poplar in Syria, Populus alba and Priestly Narrative. euphratica; they both flourish round Damascus, where their trunks are much used in making supports for the mud roofs.

E. W. G. Masterman.

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