The Jordan valley and Petra . £ o W. Oh The Second High Place at Petra 207 is is evident from the numberless considerations drawnfrom the history of the city and region. The more we explored, the deeper grew the con-viction that similar places of worship will yet befound in other parts of the city and its surroundingrocky rampart. Up at the place called the Deir,we saw many rocks circled with stairways reachingto their summits. These stairways are in mostcases worn away in places by wind and weather,making it difficult to mount these isolated may possibly be that the main high place w
The Jordan valley and Petra . £ o W. Oh The Second High Place at Petra 207 is is evident from the numberless considerations drawnfrom the history of the city and region. The more we explored, the deeper grew the con-viction that similar places of worship will yet befound in other parts of the city and its surroundingrocky rampart. Up at the place called the Deir,we saw many rocks circled with stairways reachingto their summits. These stairways are in mostcases worn away in places by wind and weather,making it difficult to mount these isolated may possibly be that the main high place wasthe Cathedral of the city, and the second highplace a sort of winter church, much easier ofaccess, the same arrangement beine found in thecase of the sun temples of Northern Syria, whichare frequently arranged in pairs, one high abovethe city or village on a mountain-top, available insummer for the purpose of worship, and a secondstructure, in the town itself, accessible in the colderand stormier days of the 1 As seen at
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