This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...with a population of ninety-five. Corn, grapes, figs, and olives are grown. The settlement possesses a mill and an oil distillery, and shortly before the outbreak of the War a large dairy farm was established there. At Hulda, not far from Lydda, on the Jerusalem-Jaffa railway, the Jewish National Fund ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...with a population of ninety-five. Corn, grapes, figs, and olives are grown. The settlement possesses a mill and an oil distillery, and shortly before the outbreak of the War a large dairy farm was established there. At Hulda, not far from Lydda, on the Jerusalem-Jaffa railway, the Jewish National Fund bought land in 1906. The great olive grove which is being planted in memory of Theodore Herzl is situated at Hulda. The first steps for the colonization of Djemama, twenty-six miles south of Castinieh, had been taken before the outbreak of the War, and the question of settling Jewish colonists still farther south, in the Egyptian territory of El Arish, was being seriously considered. CHAPTER XIII THE COLONIES IN DETAIL--II. GALILEE The Galilean colonies, of which there are sixteen, lie for the most part near the western shore of the Sea of Galilee and the western bank of the Jordan, previous to its entrance into that sea. They stretch, however, almost half-way to the Mediterranean. The northernmost, Metula, is on a level with the ancient port of Tyre: the southernmost, Merchavia, lies on the HaifaDamascus railway. The district in which these colonies are situated is perhaps the most fertile in Palestine, and would, together with that beyond the Jordan which the railway serves, under satisfactory political conditions, become one of the granaries of the world. When the lea took over the administration of these colonies from Baron Edmund in 1899, almost the first task that met them was the transformation of a wine-producing area into one for the cultivation of cereals and for cattleraising. For this purpose additional land had to be purchased. The Baron had already acquired considerable tracts in Lower Galilee, but as they had remained...
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