The Holy Land and the Bible; . monastery, but instead of it we have a softwhite chalk, worn by the winter storms into long, sharp ridges, stand-ing up high and rough between narrow gorges, the bottom of which isa mass of stones and boulders. A thin sprinkling of grass and flowerssoftens this forbidding landscape in spring, but that soon Avithers, andleaves, for nearly the whole year, only a bewilderment of strangeknolls, peaks, rugged spurs, and knife-like ridges, utterly treeless andwaterless, to reflect the glare of the sun from the universal the monastery, to the west, the
The Holy Land and the Bible; . monastery, but instead of it we have a softwhite chalk, worn by the winter storms into long, sharp ridges, stand-ing up high and rough between narrow gorges, the bottom of which isa mass of stones and boulders. A thin sprinkling of grass and flowerssoftens this forbidding landscape in spring, but that soon Avithers, andleaves, for nearly the whole year, only a bewilderment of strangeknolls, peaks, rugged spurs, and knife-like ridges, utterly treeless andwaterless, to reflect the glare of the sun from the universal the monastery, to the west, there is a wall of lofty hills, whileto the east a table-land of water-worn marl, cut into innumerableridges, knolls, peaks, ravines, and crags, stretches slowly downwardsto the precipices, twelve hundred feet high, that overhang the DeadSea. Among the mountain-tops to the west of Mar Saba, the highest isthat of El Muntar, The Watch Tower, brown and barren, andmarked by the steep slope, unbroken except by precipices, with Avhicli. He tliat walketh righteously, aiul speaketh up rightl}^; he that despis- |i^ ^, ^|^^ -^-^? ? etii the gain of oppres- i VJ#*i,, sions, that shaketh his ipl^iV ^ 1;? jt^^-^r^iiiir hands from holding of K .ni .7- .; y^ ~ti-^^-^^^i bribes, that stoppeth his -- ??^£-;,-.~--c:te=«d ears from hearing of blood, and shuttethhis eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high ; liis place of defence shall!be the munitions of rocks ; bread ohall be given him ;fe-iv.;J-7£j££his waters shall be sure. I _ —1> ^•^^^?t^ Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty : they t--—:^^shall behold the land that is very far off.—IsaJ^xxxiii. , _^„^. , . .. In God is my salvation and my glory : the rock of K- ^ *my strength and my refuge is my God.—Psa. Ixii. 6. 1^ The Lord is my defence : and mj God is the rock of my refuge.—Psa. xciv. 22. BALCONIES OF THE MONKS CELLS OF 3IAR SABA. (See page 424.) MAR SABA. 429 it descends to tlie plateau bene
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