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. 1872 Excerpt: ...along the steep sides of the hill that the rickety dwellings in the upper part seem to be toppling over on the fiat roofs of those below. Very few remains of antiquity are found', except a few broken columns scattered about the streets, and through the gardens on the southern slope of the hill, and the large stone3 in ...
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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. 1872 Excerpt: ...along the steep sides of the hill that the rickety dwellings in the upper part seem to be toppling over on the fiat roofs of those below. Very few remains of antiquity are found', except a few broken columns scattered about the streets, and through the gardens on the southern slope of the hill, and the large stone3 in the foundations of the castle. The monks pretend to show the "house of Simon the tanner." The harbor and landing are miserable, yet the town has still considerable trade as the port of Jerusalem, and its fruits are considered tho.best in Syria. Among its population are fugitives and vagabonds from all countries. Joppe, 1 Esdras v, 55; 1 Mace, x, 75, 76; and elsewhere in the Apocrypha. See Joppa. Jordan, (Map 5, ) flowing down, or the descender, the great river of Palestine. This celebrated stream is "without any parallel, historical or physical, in the whole world." The first Scripture notice of the Jordan occurs in the story of the separation of Abraham and Lot, "before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah." The sacred writer tells us that "all the plain of Jordan" was "well watered every-where... as the garden of the Lord," Gen. xiii, 10. At the destruction of the "cities of the plain" some great physical change must have been produced in the valley of the Jordan, Gen. xix. Another great epoch in the Jordan's history was the passage of the Israelites after their forty years' wandering; Josh, iii; iv; v, 1; Psa. cxiv, 3. It was in harvest-time--the beginning of April--when the rains wero still falling heavily in Hermon, and the winter snows were melting under the rays of the warm sun, and when a thousand mountain torrents thus fed swept into the Jordan, and made it "overflow all...
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