. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . y—riv-er of Palestine, the boundary between Ca-naan, properly so called, and that eastern re-gion, the dominions of Sihon and Og, whichwas occupied by Reuben, Gad, and halfManasseh. The source of the Jordan is tobe found in certain mountain streams andsprings supplied by the perpetual snowswhich, even in the hottest summer weather,cap Mount Hermon—the White Mountainof the Holy Land. For six miles the uni-ted waters of
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . y—riv-er of Palestine, the boundary between Ca-naan, properly so called, and that eastern re-gion, the dominions of Sihon and Og, whichwas occupied by Reuben, Gad, and halfManasseh. The source of the Jordan is tobe found in certain mountain streams andsprings supplied by the perpetual snowswhich, even in the hottest summer weather,cap Mount Hermon—the White Mountainof the Holy Land. For six miles the uni-ted waters of these mountain streams flowthrough a marshy plain, to enter Lake Hu-lek (the ancient Merom). Quitting thislake at its southern extremity, the riverdescends to the Lake of Gennesaret, a dis-tance of about nine miles. Within this spacethe fall of the river is about six hundredfeet. At first the banks are low, and thecurrent not very hasty; then it passes rap-idly through a narrow winding ravine withprecipitous banks. At its entrance into thelake, two miles below the ruins of Julias,the ancient Bethsaida of Gaulonitis, it is alazy, turbid stream seventy feet wide. Quit-. Source of the Jordan. JORDAN 529 JOSEPH ting this lake at its southern extremity, itbecomes a headlong torrent, -winding in itscourse, with many a precipitous fall, througha strange, lonely valley, hot and desolate,where no city ever crowned its bank, joinedhere and there by a few mountain torrents,the only tributaries of any importance be-in s the Hieromax, now Yarmuk, and the Jab-bok, now the Zerka. The crooked characterof its course is indicated by the fact that itoccupies two hundred miles in traversing adirect line of not over sixty. It sinks low-er and lower, till at length it empties itselfinto the mysterious basin of the Salt or DeadSea, the surface of which is one thousandthree hundred and sixteen feet below theMediterranean sea-level. From the Lake ofGalilee to the Salt Sea, the Jordan descendsnearl
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