Peasant life in the Holy Land . A WATEE-JIILL, JEBEL AJLUN. To face page 260. WOOD-CARVING 261 The work is all done by hand, and some of thespecimens are very beautiful. There is a growingdemand for olive-wood articles, and in a few casessome of the Fellahin have begun making variousobjects in the \dllages, the raw material beingcheaper there than in towns. They sell them inthe shops in Jerusalem and elsewhere. CHAPTER XIV INflSCEIJ-ANEOUS The roads in Palestine are for the most part roughtracks, or else mere paths across the country. Inthe hills they are very stony, and in the plain
Peasant life in the Holy Land . A WATEE-JIILL, JEBEL AJLUN. To face page 260. WOOD-CARVING 261 The work is all done by hand, and some of thespecimens are very beautiful. There is a growingdemand for olive-wood articles, and in a few casessome of the Fellahin have begun making variousobjects in the \dllages, the raw material beingcheaper there than in towns. They sell them inthe shops in Jerusalem and elsewhere. CHAPTER XIV INflSCEIJ-ANEOUS The roads in Palestine are for the most part roughtracks, or else mere paths across the country. Inthe hills they are very stony, and in the plainsfrequently impassable in the winter owing to thedeep mud. During the Roman occupation of thecountry fine paved roads were made in all directions,of which extensive remains still exist both east andAvest of tlie Jordan, with milestones, the inscriptionson them being often still decipherable, recording-how, under such a Caesar or in sucli-and-such aconsulship, the road was made or repaired. TheseRoman highways, however, from having beenne
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