. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . stern and north-western this narrow strip of land, and on thesurrounding hill-sides, the most fertile farmsand vineyards of all Northern Palestine sup-ported an industrious peasant innumerable fish with which its clearwaters abound afforded avocation for hun-dreds of fishermen, and supplied the country for many miles around. Lying directly onthe route between Damascus and the Medi-terranean,
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . stern and north-western this narrow strip of land, and on thesurrounding hill-sides, the most fertile farmsand vineyards of all Northern Palestine sup-ported an industrious peasant innumerable fish with which its clearwaters abound afforded avocation for hun-dreds of fishermen, and supplied the country for many miles around. Lying directly onthe route between Damascus and the Medi-terranean, nearly all the commerce betweenthe east and the west passed along its north-ern shores. From the southern end of thewestern shore some warm mineral springsafforded to the Roman special advantage forhis much-esteemed bath, and constituted theSea of Galilee, the summer resort of thewealthy, the watering-place of all within a few miles radius were foundall classes—the farmer, the fisherman, thetraveling merchant, the half-heathen tax-gatherer, the Roman soldier, and the courte-san who always follows the army and occasional caravan is all that is now. 1 Matt, xiv., 34; Mark vi., 53. See, for illustration,m. !.—a So Robinson and Porter. Stanley,However, calls it five miles wide, and six or seven Sea of Gennesaret. left of the commerce between East and Westwhich once enlivened these shores. A singlecrazy fishing-boat is the solitary survivor ofthe fleets that once covered the lake. Ofthe cities which were once crowded alongthe western and north-western shore of thismost populous centre of the most populousdistrict of Palestine, the town of Tiberiasand the wretched little village of Migdel(ancient Magdala), are all that are left. Theruins that strew the plain of Gennesaret wit-ness to the populousness of the past, but donot clearly indicate the situations of thecities of Dalmanutha, Chorazin, and Caper-naum. Though the plain of Gennesaret sti
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