Rambles in Bible lands . hedwelling-places of these men. In the eastern part of theHauran there are fine oak woods, which naturally madethe oaks of Bashan proverbial9 ; whilst the splendid cattleof the herdsmen of Manasseh rendered the term bulls ofBashan a synonym for Through this plain,with many branches, runs the largest of all the tributariesof the Jordan, the river Jarmoak. The third district of the Hauran, El Jebel, theMountain, now called the Druze mountain, runs from 1 Ezek. xlvii. 16, 18. 2 Gen. xiv. Num. xiii. 33. 4 1 Sam. xvii. 4-54. 5 1 Chron. xx. 4; 2 Sam. xxi. 18.
Rambles in Bible lands . hedwelling-places of these men. In the eastern part of theHauran there are fine oak woods, which naturally madethe oaks of Bashan proverbial9 ; whilst the splendid cattleof the herdsmen of Manasseh rendered the term bulls ofBashan a synonym for Through this plain,with many branches, runs the largest of all the tributariesof the Jordan, the river Jarmoak. The third district of the Hauran, El Jebel, theMountain, now called the Druze mountain, runs from 1 Ezek. xlvii. 16, 18. 2 Gen. xiv. Num. xiii. 33. 4 1 Sam. xvii. 4-54. 5 1 Chron. xx. 4; 2 Sam. xxi. 18. 6 1 Chron. xx. 5. 7 2 Sam. xxi. 16. 8 2 Sam. xxi. 20. 9 Isa. ii. 13 ; Ezek. xxvii. 6 ; Zech. xi. 2. 10 Ps. xxii. 12 ; Ezek. xxxix. 18 ; Amos iv. 1. EAST OF JORDAN 203 north to south between the Nukrah, or Plain, and theDesert. The natives still call this region by the ancientname Ard el Bathanyeh, the Land of Batanaea, orBashan. These mountains rise to a height of some6,000 feet, the highest in all the Holy Land next to. AN ANCIENT TOMB Lebanon. They afford fine scenery, for the Mountain,El Jebel, is a healthy and beautiful spot. Here, atthe southern extremity, are the extensive ruins knownas Sulkhad, the Salcah of the 1 Deut. iii. 10; Joshua xii. 5, xiii. 11 ; 1 Chron. v. 11. 2o4 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS From the top of the castle, on the summit of thehill, which rises about 300 feet above the city, thereis an extensive and most interesting view of the wholeplain of Moab, the district lying next the Hauran onthe south. Bozrah is seen on the west some twelvemiles distant. From this commanding spot, Dr. Portertells us, no less than thirty deserted Moabite sites canbe seen. Indeed, right away from here for someseventy-five miles to Kir of Moab, now Kerak,1 thesouthern boundary of that land, there is not an inhabitedtown left. No such utter ruin and desolation of aonce great and flourishing country exists on xlviii. foretold this. Of no other land is suchan awful
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