Letters from the Holy land . hatcome through the gullies between the mountainsare dreaded by the fishermen of to-day as theywere in Peters time. Fortunately W. had in themorninir ordered that our horses should be sentround to meet us here in case the wind arose,and we gladly got on them at this point, havingan enchanting ride back and being able at manyplaces to canter our horses. We heard after-wards that the boatmen did not get in till onein the morning. At Capernaum are seen somerich Roman ruins lying tumbled about as thoughby an earthquake. We rode through the supposedsite of Bethsaida, an
Letters from the Holy land . hatcome through the gullies between the mountainsare dreaded by the fishermen of to-day as theywere in Peters time. Fortunately W. had in themorninir ordered that our horses should be sentround to meet us here in case the wind arose,and we gladly got on them at this point, havingan enchanting ride back and being able at manyplaces to canter our horses. We heard after-wards that the boatmen did not get in till onein the morning. At Capernaum are seen somerich Roman ruins lying tumbled about as thoughby an earthquake. We rode through the supposedsite of Bethsaida, and passed through a portionof the old Roman roadway for chariots, cutthrousrh the rock. No accumulation of earthhas buried the original surface as elsewhere, sothat this lane, with its polished floor of rock, musthave undoubtedly been trodden by Our Lord asHe passed from city to city. Here are the remains GALILEE, LOOKING TOWARDS HERMON Mount Hermon snow-capped in distance. Town ofTiberias on shore in middle distance to LETTERS FROiNI THE HOLY LAND 65 of a Roman aqueduct, in one place pouring ahuge volume of clearest water over a ledge where,no doubt, in the citys time, a fountain the flood from the northern hills dispersesitself in abundant streams that rush through denseherbaoe to the lake. We counted six of theselittle rivers on our way to JNIagdala, the birth-place of the Magdalen. We looked down fromour mountain lanes to the milk-white strands ofthe little inlets that border the northern end ofGennesaret, and I wondered at which of themthe various episodes of the Gospel took place—Our Lord preaching from the ship pushed out alittle way to be free from the jostling crowd onshore—the embarkation for the miraculous draught of fishes . Besides oleanders the pomegranates grow all along this shore in dense masses halfembedded in teeming vegetation. iNIagdala is a tiny mud hamlet with a singlepalm. There are splendid fig-trees here. Herdsof oxen and goats and
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