. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . nsof travel and transportation. Good roads were not neces-sary for them, and, being neglected, they quickly disap- » Gen. xlv. 19, 21. ^ q^^^ ] (> s j^sh. xvii. 16. * Judg. i. 19. Jiulp. iv. 13. * 1 Sam. xiii. .5. ^ Isaiah ii. 7. * Acts viii. 28. 20 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. peared from the land, and carriages with them. Nor willthey ever reappear till some other race than the Arab pre-dominates, and a better than the Turk governs. Even theChristian inhabitants of L
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . nsof travel and transportation. Good roads were not neces-sary for them, and, being neglected, they quickly disap- » Gen. xlv. 19, 21. ^ q^^^ ] (> s j^sh. xvii. 16. * Judg. i. 19. Jiulp. iv. 13. * 1 Sam. xiii. .5. ^ Isaiah ii. 7. * Acts viii. 28. 20 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. peared from the land, and carriages with them. Nor willthey ever reappear till some other race than the Arab pre-dominates, and a better than the Turk governs. Even theChristian inhabitants of Lebanon, where good roads are mostneeded, have no adequate appreciation of them, and take nopains to make them. They drive their loaded camels,mules, and donkeys along frightful paths, and endangertheir own necks by riding over the same, from generationto generation, without dreaming of any improvement. Youmust educate your nerves into indifference in this matter,and get ready as fast as possible to flounder over all sortsof break-neck places in the course of our pilgrimage. What man has done, man can do. I have all my life. THE KHARUB. 21 been accustomed to the saddle, and like it; and a little dan-ger now and then will impart additional charms to the tour.—What tree is this which overshadows our path? It ismore bushy and thick-set than the apple-tree, for which I atfirst mistook it, and, as we near it, I see that the leaves arelonger and of a much darker green.
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