The land of promise: or, The Bible land and its revelation: Illustrated with several engravings of some of the most important places in Palestine and Syria . he most beautiful and cheering place along the journey, and is iden-tified as the ancient En-gedi. This district was at one time very fruit-ful, but has become fruitless from being neglected (1 Sam. xxiii. 29;xxiv. 1-2) for many centuries, so that nearly all the soil in the greaterpart of it has been washed away by the heavy rains, common in Pales-tine during the winter season. Indeed, it seems strange, that much ofthe country, throughout
The land of promise: or, The Bible land and its revelation: Illustrated with several engravings of some of the most important places in Palestine and Syria . he most beautiful and cheering place along the journey, and is iden-tified as the ancient En-gedi. This district was at one time very fruit-ful, but has become fruitless from being neglected (1 Sam. xxiii. 29;xxiv. 1-2) for many centuries, so that nearly all the soil in the greaterpart of it has been washed away by the heavy rains, common in Pales-tine during the winter season. Indeed, it seems strange, that much ofthe country, throughout eastern and southern Palestine, in the timeof the Israelites the most productive, is now wild, desolate a,nd coveredwith beds of deep-seated rocks, from one end to the other, and mustremain so forever, for there is no possibility of ever causing it to pro-duce again. THE DEAD SEA. The most mysterious body of water in Palestine, if not in the world,is the Dead Sea. It is situated in the lowest portion of the ravine thatextends from the northern to the extreme southern portion of Pales-tine. This body of water is regarded as one of the great wonders of. < w Q<WQ FROM JERUSALEM TO THE DEAD SEA. 187 the world, and has been a subject of discussion for many ages, by themost learned scientific men, our world has produced. Although theyhave discovered and brought many things of interest to light, yetthere is a deep mystery clinging to it, which has baffled the mosttalented scientists of the world to demonstrate. Many have consentedto accept the Scripture narratives concerning it, as to its origin, whilstothers have endeavored to trace its origin to some other cause, butwithout satisfying themselves, after years of research and much loss oftime. All these great investigations of men who undertake to set asidethe word of God, as taught us in the Holy Scriptures, by endeavoring toestablish other theories, suitable to their own fancies, have been a suc-cession of failures, so glarin
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