The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . warm, we shall be able tosun and dry every thing before night. And now we havethe flowery but rather muddy Butaiha through which tosaunter for two hours. Dr. Robinson says correctly that itresembles Grennesaret—the one on the northwest, and theother along the northeast shore of the lake, both well water-ed and extremely fertile, and also both very unhealthy. TheButaiha has the largest and most permanent brooks, Genne-saret the most numerous and largest fountains. I ca
The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . warm, we shall be able tosun and dry every thing before night. And now we havethe flowery but rather muddy Butaiha through which tosaunter for two hours. Dr. Robinson says correctly that itresembles Grennesaret—the one on the northwest, and theother along the northeast shore of the lake, both well water-ed and extremely fertile, and also both very unhealthy. TheButaiha has the largest and most permanent brooks, Genne-saret the most numerous and largest fountains. I can con-firm the statement of Burkhardt that the Arabs of Butaihahave the earliest cucumbers and melons in all this once visited it in early spring with a guide from Safed, Life, 12d paragraph. LODGE IN A GARDEN—CITIES OF PHILIP. 11 who came, according to custom, to load his mules with thesevegetables for the market in that town. The vines are al-ready up and spreading rapidly, and there comes the gar-dener with a basket of cucumbers to sell, which, of course,we will purchase for our salad in the evening. ^^li. .- T^^^^?0^ LODGE AT BUTAIHA. And that is the lodge, I suppose, which Isaiah speaks of;just such a frail, temporary thing suggested that sad com-,plaint of the prophet, The daughter of Zion is left as a cot-tage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.^ No doubt; but the true point of the comparison will notappear until the crop is over, and the lodge forsaken by thekeeper. Then the poles fall down, or lean every which way,and those green boughs with which it is shaded will havebeen scattered by the wind, leaving only a ragged, sprawlingwreck, a most affecting type of utter desolation—as Sodom,and like unto Gomorrah. If this is the Julias which Philip built, and named in hon-or of the daughter of Caesar, it was certainly no great com-pliment. And yet Josephus says he advanced it to the dignityof a city, both by the number of inhabitants it contain
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