The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ^fj^^P^^^X^^S-s^-*^-**- ^ ONE OF THE UEACHES OF THE JORDAN, IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF the MediteiTanean, but instead of maintaiuing it, the river makes a suddendrop on leaving the lake, cutting for itself a deeply grooved channel. It hasa fall of some 300 feet before reaching the Lake of Genesareth,- where it isonly momentarily arrested, as if to gather fresh strength for its headlongcareer southwards. Here and there it makes furious assaults on its right andleft banks, as if to escape from its bed, but the rocky escarpments whi
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ^fj^^P^^^X^^S-s^-*^-**- ^ ONE OF THE UEACHES OF THE JORDAN, IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF the MediteiTanean, but instead of maintaiuing it, the river makes a suddendrop on leaving the lake, cutting for itself a deeply grooved channel. It hasa fall of some 300 feet before reaching the Lake of Genesareth,- where it isonly momentarily arrested, as if to gather fresh strength for its headlongcareer southwards. Here and there it makes furious assaults on its right andleft banks, as if to escape from its bed, but the rocky escarpments whichhem it in present an insurmountable barrier to it; from rapid to rapid itdescends with such capricious windings that it covers a course of morethan 62 miles before reaching the Dead Sea, nearly 1300 feet below thelevel of the Mediterranean.^ Nothing could offer more striking contrasts thanthe country on either bank. On the east, the ground rises abruptly to aheight of about 3000 feet, resembling a natural rampart flanked with towersand bastions : behind this extends an immense table-land, slightly undulatingand intersected in all directions by
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