The Jordan valley and Petra . est lay the southern end ofthe Dead Sea; and the Lisan, which extends farout into its waters from the base of the mountainsof Moab, was plainly visible. The view north, (seephotograph, p. 245) gives an excellent idea of therocky wall which shuts in the Petra vaL^y. Ontop of this mass, across the chasm lying between,we could plainly see the Deir, white and cleanagainst the darker mass behind and around itNearer views of some of the peaks reveal a ruggedgrandeur that is indescribable. It is true that in this wide landscape there is ascarcity of marked features, comp
The Jordan valley and Petra . est lay the southern end ofthe Dead Sea; and the Lisan, which extends farout into its waters from the base of the mountainsof Moab, was plainly visible. The view north, (seephotograph, p. 245) gives an excellent idea of therocky wall which shuts in the Petra vaL^y. Ontop of this mass, across the chasm lying between,we could plainly see the Deir, white and cleanagainst the darker mass behind and around itNearer views of some of the peaks reveal a ruggedgrandeur that is indescribable. It is true that in this wide landscape there is ascarcity of marked features, compared with someother views in Syria and the Holy Land, but italso remains true that the outlook from MountHor is one of the grandest conceivable over a wasteof mountain solitude and the chasm of the DeadSea. Our barometers registered forty-six hundredfeet1; adding to this the twelve hundred and ninetyfeet, we have a depth of fifty-eight hundred and 1 The height given by Kitchener in 18S3 is 45S0 as determined by o in O w §3 C5 £ S o O -rJ o w i - 5 « ffi 5 C-i A z ^ O CO a * > be Io Mount Hor 251 ninety feet to the shores of the Salt Sea. And be-tween its steel-blue waters and the ruddy peaksaround Mount Hor lies one of the grandest sweepsof natures wildest handiwork that can fall beneaththe eye of man. Lord Kitchener describes it asfollows : The scenery is exceptionally fine, and Ido not consider former writers have exaggeratedthe grand appearance of Mount Hor ; the brilliantcolors of the rocks have been remarked by all trav-ellers, but surpassed what I expected to find. The birds-eye view obtained from the top ofMount Hor threw a flood of light upon somestructural problems which had been taking shapein our minds from the time we left Banias up tothis moment. They were not much advanced be-yond the stage of a theory until we crossed theArabah on our return journey, when we obtained somuch additional evidence upon the subject whichsupported the theory that
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