. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. he waterwith his hands in order to recover his right perpendic-ular. On reaching the shore he applied a towTel to his eyes,ears and nostrils, which were smarting as if the fire of perdi-tion had got into them, and meanwhile was sadly lamentingthat a man from the prairies of the great Western States, andwho had been born under the Stars and Stripes, should havebeen such a fool as
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. he waterwith his hands in order to recover his right perpendic-ular. On reaching the shore he applied a towTel to his eyes,ears and nostrils, which were smarting as if the fire of perdi-tion had got into them, and meanwhile was sadly lamentingthat a man from the prairies of the great Western States, andwho had been born under the Stars and Stripes, should havebeen such a fool as to have bathed in such a sea. We mounted and galloped on horseback over the plain ofJericho, and in an hour reached the traditional site of thepassage of the Israelites over the Jordan. The river is aboutone hundred feet broad here ; the current is swift, and the watermuddy. On the east side, the banks were over twenty feethigh, and the mountains of Moab rose up range above rangeand in a multitude of barren peaks. On the west side, wherewe landed, the ground gradually shelved down towards theriver, and the fiats which are overflowed at the time of harvestto this day were covered with Tarfa and other shrubs and. 342 BETHANY, BETHLEHEM, HEBRON, AND JERICHO. trees. The Israelites entered the land of Canaan, we read,opposite Jericho. It was at the harvest time, when Jordanoverfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest. * At theend of March when I was there, the Jordan was overflowingits shelving banks on the west side. The current was strong,and only a powerful and expert swimmer could cross, so thatthe multitudes of men, women, children and animals could notcross at the harvest season. The Jordan maintains its over-flow all the time of harvest, as Dr. Thomson shows, for its sup-plies come from the fountains at Tel-el-Kady, and Banias,which are greatly increased by the melting snows on Hermonand the Lebanon. Thus a steady volume of water is maintainedfor months, and the literal
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