The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ly to aheight of about 3000 feet, resembling a natural rampart flanked with towersand bastions : behind this extends an immense table-land, slightly undulatingand intersected in all directions by the affluents of the Jordan and the Dead Drawn by Boudier, from several photographs brought back by Lortet. - Its most ancient name is the Sea of Kinuereth, Yam-Kinnereth {Narnh. xxsiv. 11; Josh. slii. 27),or Yam-Kineroth {Jodi. sii. 3); from the time of the Greek period it was called tlie Lake of Gennesaror Guinussar (1 Mace. si. 67; Josephcs,
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . ly to aheight of about 3000 feet, resembling a natural rampart flanked with towersand bastions : behind this extends an immense table-land, slightly undulatingand intersected in all directions by the affluents of the Jordan and the Dead Drawn by Boudier, from several photographs brought back by Lortet. - Its most ancient name is the Sea of Kinuereth, Yam-Kinnereth {Narnh. xxsiv. 11; Josh. slii. 27),or Yam-Kineroth {Jodi. sii. 3); from the time of the Greek period it was called tlie Lake of Gennesaror Guinussar (1 Mace. si. 67; Josephcs, Jewish War, III. s. 7, 8; cf. Nec^acer, Geographie diiTalmud, p. 255). The exact figures are : the Lake of Hflleh 7 feet above the Mediterranean; the Lake ofGenesareth 6825 feet, and the Dead Sea 12921 feet below the sea-level; to the south of the DeadSea, towards the water-parting of the Akabah, the ground is over 720 feet higher than the level ofthe Bed Sea (Elisee Eeclus, Geographie universelle, vol. ix. pp. 730-735). THE JORDAN AND THE DEAD SEA. 13. .lii. 1.»,A1J jiKA AXD THE MOUNTAINS ul .:..\L., cKEN IKOM THE HEIGHTS OF EXGEUI. Sea—the Yarmuk, the Jabbok,^ aud the Arnon.* The whole of this districtforms a little world in itself, whose inhabitants, half shepherds, half bandits,live a life of isolation, with no ambition to take part in general history. Westof the Jordan, a confused mass of hills rises into sight, their sparsely coveredslopes affording an impoverished soil for the cultivation of corn, vines, andolives. One ridge—Mount Carmel—detached from the principal chain near thesouthern end of the Lake of Genesareth, runs obliquely to the north-west, andfinally projects into the sea. North of this range extends Galilee, aboundingin refreshing streams and fertile fields; while to the south, the country fallsnaturally into three parallel zones—the littoral, composed alternately of dunesand marshes—an expanse of plain, a Shephelah, * dotted about with woodsand
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