Rambles in Bible lands . n the East ! well says, It is worthy of remark that thesemodern Ishmaelites would not now hesitate to makejust such a purchase, and actually do in certain parts ofthe country, and it is interesting to find 44 balm con-nected with Gilead. Jeremiah long after exclaims,Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physicianthere ? 1 1 Jer. viii. 22. THE BAY OF ACRE, LOOKING SOUTHTO THE TOWN OF HAIFA(THE HAVEN), AT THE FOOTOF MOUNT CARMEL CHAPTER IX GALILEE, JOPPA TO BEYROUT, LEBANON Going north, the great plain of Esdraelon is reached,with J en in, the truly pictures
Rambles in Bible lands . n the East ! well says, It is worthy of remark that thesemodern Ishmaelites would not now hesitate to makejust such a purchase, and actually do in certain parts ofthe country, and it is interesting to find 44 balm con-nected with Gilead. Jeremiah long after exclaims,Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physicianthere ? 1 1 Jer. viii. 22. THE BAY OF ACRE, LOOKING SOUTHTO THE TOWN OF HAIFA(THE HAVEN), AT THE FOOTOF MOUNT CARMEL CHAPTER IX GALILEE, JOPPA TO BEYROUT, LEBANON Going north, the great plain of Esdraelon is reached,with J en in, the truly picturesque modern town of threethousand inhabitants, at its southern extremity, theEngannim, or Spring of Gardens, 1 of Scripture, oneof the cities of the tribe,2 to wThich fell this fine andfertile though poorly watered plain. It is about fourteenmiles across from north to south, and fifteen miles fromsouth-east to north-west. No Bible towns occur upon 1 Joshua xix. 21, xxi. 29. 2 The tribe of Issachar (Joshua xix. 17-23). 236. GALILEE 237 it, though seven interesting places are on the hills plain, about 200 to 250 feet above sea-level,Colonel Conder speaks of as one of the richest naturalfields of cultivation in Palestine—perhaps one might sayin the world. It has a soil of loose basaltic river Kishon, with its source at the foot of Tabor,on the north-east, runs through the middle of the plain,and then out into the plain of Acre, through a narrowgorge, hidden amongst oleanders, and along the baseof the range of Carmel, thirteen miles long, and so tothe sea at Haifa. To the north of this bold andbeautiful gorge at its narrowest part, where the Kishoncuts its way into the plain of Acre, close to the river,is the little village of Harathiyeh, named from thebeautiful woods here, the Harosheth, or Forest, ofJudges iv., where Sisera dwelt, or had his Farther to the north still, amongst the extensiveforest or thickets here, runs from east to west th
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