The Jordan valley and Petra . lley. We found later that even Musacould lie, for in the same notch, a hundred feethigher up, was an excellent cistern in which waswater in abundance, but unobtainable except bythe use of a fifty-foot rope and some vessel to drawit with. Musa joined us before luncheon, butseemed to be in mortal dread lest some inhabitantof the region should see and recognize him. The last two hundred feet of the climb is up thesteep rock by means of long stairways, steeperthan any ladder, and positively dangerous atplaces. There are many traces of other stairways,which have been h
The Jordan valley and Petra . lley. We found later that even Musacould lie, for in the same notch, a hundred feethigher up, was an excellent cistern in which waswater in abundance, but unobtainable except bythe use of a fifty-foot rope and some vessel to drawit with. Musa joined us before luncheon, butseemed to be in mortal dread lest some inhabitantof the region should see and recognize him. The last two hundred feet of the climb is up thesteep rock by means of long stairways, steeperthan any ladder, and positively dangerous atplaces. There are many traces of other stairways,which have been hewn in the rock, used for cen-turies, worn out, and abandoned. We left Mus-tapha to guard the animals, and had Musa with usfor the final climb, which was a stiff one of fullyfifteen minutes. Travellers coming from the south speak of MountHor as the highest mountain in sight along theroute. Its mass of reddish sandstone and con-glomerate rises in a precipitous wall of naturalmasonry, tier above tier, with its face to the Mount Hor 243 The base of the cliff of sandstone rests upon a solidridge of granite and porphyry, and the summitof the sandstone is somewhat in the form ofa rude pyramid. No more grand monumentcould be erected to the memory of a man honoredof God, than that which nature has here rearedup. For amidst this region of natural pyra-mids, Jebel Haroun towers in passing sentence of premature deathupon His servant, for a public act of disobedience,left him not to die without honor, and forever afterthe most conspicuous peak in all this country hasbeen inseparably connected with his name andstands as a monument to his memory. l Mount Hor, called by the Arabs Jebel Haroun,or Aarons Mount, is one of the few spots connectedwith the wanderings of the Israelites which ad-mits of no reasonable doubt. Dr. H. C. Trumbullhas suggested Jebel Madirah, an isolated hill nearAin Kadis, as the real scene of Aarons who have visited both locations
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