Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . indicate, that the origin-al basin was in the southern part of the present .sea. But,although the waters of the river at first presented a muchless extended surface to the action of the sun and the at-mosphere, still a secret communication between the lakeand the Mediterranean, is not perhaps necessary to ac
Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers . indicate, that the origin-al basin was in the southern part of the present .sea. But,although the waters of the river at first presented a muchless extended surface to the action of the sun and the at-mosphere, still a secret communication between the lakeand the Mediterranean, is not perhaps necessary to accountfor their discharge. By Ihe of Volney, evapo-ralion ismnre than suflicient lo carry them off al present: nnilif to this be added, the great quantity of water consumedin the cities, and required by the culli\ator, to refresh hisplantations and corn-fields, under Ihe burning rays of anoriental sun, il is presumed, a cause equal to the cflect isprovided. This is not a mere conjecture, unsupported byliistorical facts; for only a very small portion ot the Bar-rady, the principal river of , ;icapes from thegardens that environ the citv. through which it is con-ducted in a thousand clear and winding streams, to main-lain their freshness and verdure.— Chap. 5—9. JOSHUA. 129 CHAPTER V. Ver. 15. And the captain of the Lords hostsaid unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from ofT thyfoot; for the place wliereon thou standest isholy. And Joshua did so. Every person Ihat approaches Ihe royal presence in theEast, is obliged to lake oil his shoes, because they consideras .sacred the ground on which the king sits, whom they dig-nify with the title of the Shadow of God. Allusive to thiscustom, perhaps, is the command given to Joshua : Loosethyshoe from off thy fool; for the place whereon thou standestis holv. And Joshua did .so. And so strictly was this cus-tom observed, that tiie Persians look upon the omission of itas the greatest indignity Ihat can be oHered t
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