This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...213. An imaginary province described by Bishop Hall in Mundus Alter etldem 1.2.1. Jabesh-Gilead. Eikonocl. (12) 3. 436. A city of Palestine, in Gilead, beyond the Jordan, said by Fuller to be "sweetly seated at the bottom of balm bearing mountains." (P. 85.) Milton refers to the narrative of Judges 21. 8-14. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...213. An imaginary province described by Bishop Hall in Mundus Alter etldem 1.2.1. Jabesh-Gilead. Eikonocl. (12) 3. 436. A city of Palestine, in Gilead, beyond the Jordan, said by Fuller to be "sweetly seated at the bottom of balm bearing mountains." (P. 85.) Milton refers to the narrative of Judges 21. 8-14. Jactura. See Joccatra. Jakatra. See Joccatra. Japan. Animadv. (3. 37) 3. 213. In 1613 Japan was visited by an Englishman, Captain John Saris, who gave an account of the country. (Pilgrimes 1. 366 ff.) He found Portuguese Jesuits already established there. In 1618 Hondius made a map of the country. Jarosslawl. See Yeraslave. Javan, Isles of. Samson 716. (See also Tarsus.) The country of the Ionian Greeks, descended from Javan, grandson of Noah. The name is also applied to the Greeks in general, as in P. L. 1. 508. Javan is often mentioned in the Bible in connection with Tarshish and the Isles, as in Isaiah 66. 19 and Ezekiel 27. 12-15. It is not necessary to think of actual islands ("the isles of Javan and Gadier"), for in the Bible "isles" is a term applied to lands bordering on the sea as well as to islands. Gadier (q. v.) is an island. Jenissey. Moscovia (3) 8. 485 (twice). The Yenisei, a river of Siberia flowing into the Arctic Ocean east of the River Ob. Milton's sources read as follows: "Jenisce being a River farre bigger than Obi, hath high mountaines on the East, among which are some that cast out fire and brimstone. The countrey is plaine to the West, and exceeding fertile, stored with plants, flowers, and trees of divers kmds. Also many strange fruits do grow therein, and there is great abundance of rare Fowles. Jenisce in the spring overfloweth the fields about seventie leagues, in like manner as...
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