. On Nazareth hill. nd overthe lip of Jordan to Gilead. Saul tried to make thisspring his base and the mountain his rear-guard; butthe Philistine impact drove the host of Israel up thesteep slope into the blind glens and wadies above, andthere annihilated it. The writer never appreciated how easily an armycould be confused here till he rode over Gilboa from thesouth and lost his way in the endeavor to find thisspring. While from a distance the mountain looksfairly smooth and bare, he found that in reality it iscut up into ravines and hollows from which there iseither no exit or only a narrow r
. On Nazareth hill. nd overthe lip of Jordan to Gilead. Saul tried to make thisspring his base and the mountain his rear-guard; butthe Philistine impact drove the host of Israel up thesteep slope into the blind glens and wadies above, andthere annihilated it. The writer never appreciated how easily an armycould be confused here till he rode over Gilboa from thesouth and lost his way in the endeavor to find thisspring. While from a distance the mountain looksfairly smooth and bare, he found that in reality it iscut up into ravines and hollows from which there iseither no exit or only a narrow rocky glen where oneman might stay a thousand. The paths down to theplain were so steep and rough that he had to,lead hishorse most of the way. Then the patches of thorn-bushand scrub make ambushes inevitable and most Saul had not already been beaten in his heart beforethe battle, the Philistines could never have taken themountain. As it was, panic made of these wild wadiesa veritable slaughter-pen. [86]. Stereograph copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, N. FOUNTAIN Yc NAIN AND MOUNT TABOR OU are looking about north-east. To your right,three miles away, is Endor; to your left six miles Naza-reth perches on its hills. The top of Tabor in front ofyou is five miles distant as the bee flies. Your back isagainst Moreh. Nain is a mean village of one hundred and fiftyMuslim inhabitants. It was raised from oblivion for aday by our Lords immortal act, and then sank back toits proper doom. The only objects of interest are thetumble-down caravanserai on the roof of which you arestanding, and the modest chapel in the middle groundbuilt on the site of a Crusaders church, which com-memorated the raising of the widows son. The splendid dome of Tabor is fairly well woodedwith scrub-oaks. The ruined fortifications on top,which do not show in the picture, are the work ofAntiochus the Great, Josephus, and Melik the brotherof Saladin. There are also within the enclosure amona
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