. The Bible and modern discoveries . e or four miles in extent, beyondwhich the rounded hills rise 200 feet, and gently slope away tothe east. In the centre of this depression is a small hill,perhaps 200 feet high, but entirely isolated, with a small streamrunning past it on the east. This is Heshbon. The hill isone heap of shapeless ruin, while all the neighbouring slopesare full of caves, which have once been occupied—turned intouse as habitations. The citadel hill has also a shoulder, and aspur to the south, likewise covered with ruins. In 1882 a thorough examination of the ruins of Heshbon
. The Bible and modern discoveries . e or four miles in extent, beyondwhich the rounded hills rise 200 feet, and gently slope away tothe east. In the centre of this depression is a small hill,perhaps 200 feet high, but entirely isolated, with a small streamrunning past it on the east. This is Heshbon. The hill isone heap of shapeless ruin, while all the neighbouring slopesare full of caves, which have once been occupied—turned intouse as habitations. The citadel hill has also a shoulder, and aspur to the south, likewise covered with ruins. In 1882 a thorough examination of the ruins of Heshbonwas made by Major Conder and Captain Mantell. Thoseofficers report that the ruins of the capital of Sihon consist ofshapeless mounds, of hewn stones, and pillars of a later period. Canon Tristram, Land of Moab, T24 THE BIBLE AND MODERN DISCOVERIES. A good view is to be got over the great Belka plateau, andfrom the high top, west of the ruins, the Jordan Valley becomesvisible. On this hillto]-) they found the oldest stone monuments. as yet found m byna. Ciomlechs weie numerous. The centreof these monuments appeared to be on the rounded summit,west of Heshbon. Ruins of a cairn, with a circle of stones of ISRAEL IN EGYPT. I25 moderate size surrounding it—the circle forty feet in down the hill another circle, 200 yards in diameter,consisting of two rows of stones, with an interval of eight feetbetween them. Outside this circle, north, south, and west,cromlechs of every size and form. Twenty-six were clearlyrecovered, and other fallen ones noticed. A very fine oneexists on the north, near the foot of the spur, which rises 800feet above the wady. This specimen, found and photographedby Lieutenant Mantell, has a table-stone measuring nine feetby eight feet, supported by two very square standing stones,and measures five feet six inches in the clear under the table-stone. On the plateau, north-east of the central cairn andcircle, is another fine cromlech of equal dime
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