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. 1869 Excerpt: ... Amalekites; and, in the distance, he could descry the blue line of the Mediterranean, over which the ships of Chittim should sail; while far to the south were the purple hills of Edom. Nor is Moses represented as compassing an area any less limited. From Dan, at the extreme north, and under the very shadow of Hermon, ...
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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. 1869 Excerpt: ... Amalekites; and, in the distance, he could descry the blue line of the Mediterranean, over which the ships of Chittim should sail; while far to the south were the purple hills of Edom. Nor is Moses represented as compassing an area any less limited. From Dan, at the extreme north, and under the very shadow of Hermon, to the south country, the home of Abraham and Isaac, from the plain of Jericho to the Mediterranean, --all this is distinctly recorded in the closing verses of Deuteronomy as falling within the scope of his vision. Balaam lived to go down, and was slain fighting against the nation his tongue was constrained to bless, while Moses remained in the mountain and died; "but no man knoweth of his sepulcher to this day." "On these brows," writes Tristram, " overlooking the mouth of the Jordan, over against Jericho, we halted and gazed on a prospect on which it has been permitted to few European eyes to feast. "As the eye turns southward toward the line of the ridge on which we were elevated, the peak of Jebel Shihan just stood out behind Jebel Attarus, which opened to reveal to us the situation of Kerak, though not its walls. Beyond and behind these, sharply rose Mts. Hor and Seir, and the rosy granite peaks of Arabia faded away into the distance toward Akabah. Still turning westward, in front of us, two or three lines of terraces reduced the hight of the plateau as it descended to the Dead Sea, the western outline of which we could trace in its full extent, from Usdum to Feshkah. It lay like a long strip of molten metal, with the sun mirrored on its surface, waving and undulating in its farther edge, unseen See map, page 40. in its eastern limits, as though poured from some deep cavern beneath our feet. There, almost in t...
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