. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... elights of the spot. In ascendmgto the top the path resembled the threads of a screw, windingin gentle acclivities up to the highest peak. Now it led throughgroves of terebinths, now over flowery beds, now verging onthe edge of a bold precipice, now entering dells sombre with Q2 310 FKOM DAN TO BEEESHEBA. the thick foliage of stately oaks, and anon opening into gladeswheie the grass wa
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... elights of the spot. In ascendmgto the top the path resembled the threads of a screw, windingin gentle acclivities up to the highest peak. Now it led throughgroves of terebinths, now over flowery beds, now verging onthe edge of a bold precipice, now entering dells sombre with Q2 310 FKOM DAN TO BEEESHEBA. the thick foliage of stately oaks, and anon opening into gladeswheie the grass was green and the flowers fragrant. Thoughthe heat was intense without, the path was so smooth andshady that we gained the loftiest point in less than an hour,where we were refreshed alike by the unbroken silence of thescene and the unrivaled glory of the view. Tabor rises 2000 feet above the level of the sea, and theprospect from its summit is one of extraordinary eye sweeps over the Mountains of Samaria, the long ridgeof Carmel, the Bay of Haifa, the Plain of Akka, the Hills ofGalilee, the lofty peak of Safed, the Horns of Hattin, themajestic form of Hermon, the gray Avails of Moab, the dark.
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