. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. he Doctorstates, only so many different sizes of round,hollow, flint-stones, beautified within by avariety of sparry and stalagmitical knobs,which are made to pass for as many seeds That very marked and conspicuous feature of the coast, the White Cape,d below Tyre,derives its name from the whiteness which it owes to the chalky character we have are, as usual, found embedded in the Inland, there are manifestations of chalk as far north as the sources of the Jordan. Thusthe mountain o
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. he Doctorstates, only so many different sizes of round,hollow, flint-stones, beautified within by avariety of sparry and stalagmitical knobs,which are made to pass for as many seeds That very marked and conspicuous feature of the coast, the White Cape,d below Tyre,derives its name from the whiteness which it owes to the chalky character we have are, as usual, found embedded in the Inland, there are manifestations of chalk as far north as the sources of the Jordan. Thusthe mountain of Bostra is of chalk, over the surface of which pieces of feldspath of variouscolours are strewed. But, southward from this, we find little more of it till we come to aboutthe parallel of the northern extremity of the Dead Sea, almost twenty miles from which, east- a Burckhardt, 273, 507. *> Hasselquist, 284. c Shaw, ii. 135—155. * The Album Promontorium of the ancients, now called Ras el Abaid ; both names of the same signification. e Buckinghams Palestine, i. [Lapides Judaici.] Chap. III.] GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. lxvii ward, large indications of chalky strata appear. It there forms the soil of the plain, and,proceeding southward, the soil is alternately chalky and flinty. In much of the early part ofits course the river Arnon has worn its bed through the chalky rock. Beyond this themountain over which the traveller from the north must pass before he reaches Kerek, isentirely composed of chalk and flint. These cretaceous indications occur occasionally inthe further progress southward, and abound in, and on the approach to, the peninsula of one place Burckhardt speaks of the lower chalk mountains all around the peninsula, asdistinguished from the high primitive mountains of the interior, in such a manner as tointimate their frequency in the lower country and on the borders of the coast. The easterncoast of that peninsula, on the Gulf of Akaba, consists of a s
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