Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . ns, the shrubsof Southern Judea are supplanted by trees of larger growthand by more enduring vegetation, until at length, in Galilee,we reach a region whose springs and mountain streams, neverdry, supply Lakes Merom and Tiberias, the reservoirs of Pal-estine ; whose romantic mountains reach their consummationin the snow-capped peaks of Lebanon and anti-Lebanon, andwhose verdure-clad hills and vales strongly co
Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times . ns, the shrubsof Southern Judea are supplanted by trees of larger growthand by more enduring vegetation, until at length, in Galilee,we reach a region whose springs and mountain streams, neverdry, supply Lakes Merom and Tiberias, the reservoirs of Pal-estine ; whose romantic mountains reach their consummationin the snow-capped peaks of Lebanon and anti-Lebanon, andwhose verdure-clad hills and vales strongly contrast with therelatively barren hills of Jewry. Upon the west this plateau descends by a slope, far moregradual than on the east, to the plains of Sharon, Acre, andEsdraelon. These lowlands constitute the most fertile partof Palestine. Their average width is fifteen or sixteen climate is mild, the soil rich. Orange-trees are ladenwith fruits and flowers in January, and, when neither oppres-sion nor foreign invasion desolate the landj these plains arecovered with the richest and most luxuriant vegetation. Itwas for the possession of these plains that the ancient Canaan-. ^%Ui/^^V FLOWERS OF THE HOLY LAND. CuAP. I.] THE CRADLE OF CHRISTIANITY. 25 ites contended after they were driven from the hill-country,and from which, the Book of Judges naively tells us, TheLord could not drive them out, because they had chariots ofiron.* Imagine, then, the State of Vermont, its western shorebounded by the Atlantic Ocean instead of by Lake Cham-plain ; the Connecticut Valley, its eastern boundary, a deepand almost impassable ravine cleft by some great convulsionin the solid rocks; the northern peaks of its Green-Mountainrange overtopping Mount Washington ; its southern hillsrounded like those of Western Connecticut; its northern cli-mate and productions not widely different from those of theMiddle States ; its southern counties akin in both respects tothe Gulf States, and the reader
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