The Holy Land and the Bible; . early to the Jordan valley, they are thenstopped, at right angles, by a range of flat-topped hills of mingled pink,yellow, and white. The hills of Judah, on the right, looked likecrumpled waves of light-brown paper, more or less strewn with darksand—the ideal of a wilderness; those before me were cultivated inthe nearer valleys and on the slopes beyond. Behind the pinkish hillson which I looked down, lay the ruins of Jericho and the famous circleof the Jordan, beneath the mud-slant of which lies the wreck of theCities of the Plain: then came the deep-blue waters
The Holy Land and the Bible; . early to the Jordan valley, they are thenstopped, at right angles, by a range of flat-topped hills of mingled pink,yellow, and white. The hills of Judah, on the right, looked likecrumpled waves of light-brown paper, more or less strewn with darksand—the ideal of a wilderness; those before me were cultivated inthe nearer valleys and on the slopes beyond. Behind the pinkish hillson which I looked down, lay the ruins of Jericho and the famous circleof the Jordan, beneath the mud-slant of which lies the wreck of theCities of the Plain: then came the deep-blue waters of the Dead Sea,and beyond them the pink, flat-topped mountains of Moab, rising ashigh as my standing-place. To the far south of these mountains, on asmall eminence, lay the town of Kerak, once the capital of KingMesha, the Kir Haresh, Kir Hareseth, Kir Heres, and Kir Moab ofthe prophets.^ There, when Israel pressed their siege against his1 2,935 feet. 2 Isa. xv. 1; xvi. 11; Jer. xlviii. 31, 36; Isa. xvi. 7; 2 Kiugs iii. And when he was come nigh, even .^now at tlie descent of the Mount ofOlives, the whole multitude of thedisciples began to rejoice and praiseGod with a loud voice for all themighty works that they had seen :saying, Blessed be the King thatCometh in the name of the Lord : peacein lieaven, and glory in the highest. And when he was come near, he be- \held the city and wept over it, saying,If thou hadst known, even thou, atleast in this thy day, the things thatbelong to thy peace ! but now they arehid from thine eyes.—S. Luke , 38, 41, 42. MT. OF OLIVES, FROM THE KOOFS OF JERUSALEM. (See page 354.) XXV.] GETHSEMANE AND CALVARY. 857 capital, King Mesba offered up on the brick city walls to the nationalgoJ, Cheniosh, his eldest son, who should have reigned in his at hand, in the same range, but hidden from view, frowningover a wild gorge below, lay the black walls of Macjhterus, withinwhich Jolm the Baptist pined in the dungeons of Herod An
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