. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Mount Cannel, with the village of Haifa, and the mouth of the Kiehon.—(Fairbairn.) noble ridge, the only headland of lower and centralPalestine, forms its S. boundary, running out witha bold bluff promontory all but into the very wavesof the Mediterranean. From this point it stretchesin a nearly straight line, bearing about , for alittle more than twelve miles, when it terminatessuddenly in a bluff somewhat corresponding to itsW. end, breaking down abruptly into the hills of Jenin and Samaria, which form at that part the eer*trail mass of the c
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Mount Cannel, with the village of Haifa, and the mouth of the Kiehon.—(Fairbairn.) noble ridge, the only headland of lower and centralPalestine, forms its S. boundary, running out witha bold bluff promontory all but into the very wavesof the Mediterranean. From this point it stretchesin a nearly straight line, bearing about , for alittle more than twelve miles, when it terminatessuddenly in a bluff somewhat corresponding to itsW. end, breaking down abruptly into the hills of Jenin and Samaria, which form at that part the eer*trail mass of the country. Carmel thus stands as awall between the maritime plain of Sharon on the S ,and the more inland expanse of Esdraelon on the structure is in the main the Jura formation (upperoolite), which is prevalent in the centre of W. Pales-tine—a soft, white limestone, with nodules and veinsof flint. In form Carmel is a tolerably continuous 152 CAR CAR ridge, at the \V. end about (300, and at the E. about1,600 feet above the sea. It i
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