. Palestine and its transformation . A WKLL WORKED BY HORSE-POWER AT JJKEKSUEBA. -<^- <^:m^f ^•. - Vr^^^ ^,. ARABS iLOUGUi:^G !• UK MILLET IN THE NEGEB PARCHED LAND OF THE NEGEB 121 groovings are gracefully fluted, like those in thesoft chalk of the caves at Beit Jibrin. Six miles farther south Ruheibeh, the ancientRehoboth, tells the same story of drought andabandonment. In the days of Isaac, as now, thepopulation appears to have been nomadic, for thewandering patriarch dug here a well, and for oncethe Philistines did not try to wrest it from , to judge from the ruins, agricult
. Palestine and its transformation . A WKLL WORKED BY HORSE-POWER AT JJKEKSUEBA. -<^- <^:m^f ^•. - Vr^^^ ^,. ARABS iLOUGUi:^G !• UK MILLET IN THE NEGEB PARCHED LAND OF THE NEGEB 121 groovings are gracefully fluted, like those in thesoft chalk of the caves at Beit Jibrin. Six miles farther south Ruheibeh, the ancientRehoboth, tells the same story of drought andabandonment. In the days of Isaac, as now, thepopulation appears to have been nomadic, for thewandering patriarch dug here a well, and for oncethe Philistines did not try to wrest it from , to judge from the ruins, agriculture pre-vailed, and a prosperous village contained one ortwo thousand inhabitants. An additional num-ber lived in the gardens and fields roundabout,where we found remnants of old walls six feetthick. The amount of cultivation carried on hereat present is even less than at IChalasa, althougha few poor fields are sporadically tilled. Some-thing must have changed greatly in two thou-sand years. South of Ruheibeh sand begins at a distanceof about six miles, and continues almo
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