. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... t unlike in appearancea venerable castle. Near its ancient base is a small but prettyspring, sending forth a soft murmur on the quiet air of the face of the rocks are immense natural and artificial cav-erns, the resort of pigeons, from which the vale takes its the reign of Herod the Great these caves were filledwith robbers, who were the scourges of the whole surro
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... t unlike in appearancea venerable castle. Near its ancient base is a small but prettyspring, sending forth a soft murmur on the quiet air of the face of the rocks are immense natural and artificial cav-erns, the resort of pigeons, from which the vale takes its the reign of Herod the Great these caves were filledwith robbers, who were the scourges of the whole surroundingcountry. After the battle of Sepphoris Herod besieged thisstrong-hold. Failing in his attempt to scale the cliffs, he letboxes filled with soldiers down the face of the jirecipice, andlanded them at the entrance of the caverns. Attacking thebandits with fire and sword, he succeeded in dislodging them,killing some, and diagging others out with long hooks, andthen dashing them down on the rocks below.^ At the western end of this wild glen is the green plateau ofHattin. Of irregular form, it is a mile in its greatest breadth. Ps. Ixxxix., 12. 2 Sion. Ps. cxxxiii., 3. * Josephus, B. J., b. i., ch. 8 2 m FROM DAN TO BEEESHEBA. 419 Every where well cultivated, it is bounded on tlie cast, north,and south by low hills, and on the west by the Mount of Be-atitudes. Ascending the Mount, I found it to consist of twolow summits, which suggested its present name, Kurlin Hat-tin, The Horns of Hattln, from a fancied resemblance to thetwo horns of a camels saddle. Being a quarter of a mile long,the adjacent ground rises gradually to its base, and the hillforms a crest less than 100 feet high. Relying upon an earliertradition, the Crusaders revered Kurtln Hattin as one of thesacred mountains, and, so far as they furnish any proof on thesubject, the evangelists confirm the earlier and later simple story is that Jesus went about all Galilee,preaching the gospel of the
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