The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . and south of Satunyeh, a little ott the road to Ramleh, isSarafend, the third of the name between this and are now approaching the orchards of Lydd, that villagewhere Peter was when summoned to Jaffa on account of thedeath of Dorcas. Its greatest celebrity, however, is derivedfrom St. George, who is said to have been both born andburied there. Dr. Robinson has given an excellent descrip-tion of the church as its ruins uow are, and a rapid sketchof the long an
The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . and south of Satunyeh, a little ott the road to Ramleh, isSarafend, the third of the name between this and are now approaching the orchards of Lydd, that villagewhere Peter was when summoned to Jaffa on account of thedeath of Dorcas. Its greatest celebrity, however, is derivedfrom St. George, who is said to have been both born andburied there. Dr. Robinson has given an excellent descrip-tion of the church as its ruins uow are, and a rapid sketchof the long and somewhat eventful history of the city. No 292 THE LAND AND THE CHUECH OF ST. GEOEGE. one will examine the remains of the churcli without beingimpressed with a certain air of grandeur which it arch of the south aisle is particularly fine and edifice is at t\e southwest corner of the village, and itseems always to have been outside the ancient city or on itswall. It was a little more than seventy feet wide, and onehundred long, though it is impossible to get the exact lengthon account of a mosque which is built on the corner of material is a pale yellow rock, cut from quarries on theroad to Jerusalem. It takes a good polish, and is very hardand durable. Lydd is a flourishing village of some two thousand in-habitants, imbosomed in noble orchards of olive, fig, pome-granate, mulberry, sycamore, and other trees, and surround-ed every way by a very fertile neighborhood. The inhab- HARVEST SCEXE—LINES OF ANCIENT TRADE. 293 itants are evidently industrious and thriving, and the wholecountry between this and Eamleh is fast
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