. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. alled in the this strange prospect tempts his feet to the ascent, he is surprised to find the task lessarduous than he had anticipated. Gradually one mountain after another is left below; and atlast he arrives at a pyramidal hill which overtops them all, and on the extreme summit ofwhich the city stands. This city now bears the name of Safet, and is thought to representthe Bethulia of which so much mention is made in the Book of Judith; and it is also, withvery sufficient probability, supposed to be that city t
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. alled in the this strange prospect tempts his feet to the ascent, he is surprised to find the task lessarduous than he had anticipated. Gradually one mountain after another is left below; and atlast he arrives at a pyramidal hill which overtops them all, and on the extreme summit ofwhich the city stands. This city now bears the name of Safet, and is thought to representthe Bethulia of which so much mention is made in the Book of Judith; and it is also, withvery sufficient probability, supposed to be that city to which Jesus Christ, when preaching inthis neighbourhood his famous Sermon on the Mount, directed the attention of his audience,when he reminded them that a city set on a hill cannot be (2) The elevation of themountain attracts the clouds, and at Safet rains are frequent. Mount Tabor is the highest mountain in Lower Galilee, and one of the most striking inthe Holy Land. It stands at the north-east of the great plain of Esdraelon; and although .. ? ? ? - ?. [Mount Tabor.] surrounded by chains of mountains on nearly all sides, it is the only one that stands entirelyaloof from its neighbours, although it appears to us questionable whether it may not itself beregarded as the bold termination of a branch thrown out by the chain which encloses on thewest the Lake of Tiberias. There is such a branch, and the connection between it and thismountain appears to be very close. The figure of Mount Tabor approaches that of a semisphere, and offers a very regularappearance. Its ground figure is usually described as round, and, indeed, seems to be per-fectly so to those coming from the midst of the great plain or from the Sea of Galilee ; but itis really somewhat more long (from east to west) than broad, so that its true figure inclines tooval. This is most clearly seen when the mountain is viewed from the hills of height of Mount Tabor has been loosely guessed not to excee
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