. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. prickly-oak; but the arbutus, the fir, and the ash succeed them ; and alarger-leaved species of valonidi supplies the place of that which we have lost. Even thenoble crags which form the summits of these mountains are almost hidden among beautifultrees. The fir-trees of the utmost heights are very noble. One of the finest and broadest valleys of Gilead is that near El Hosn, which Lord Lindsaythus describes:— A beautiful narrow glen ushered us into a broad valley, richly wooded to the summits ofthe hills with noble prick
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. prickly-oak; but the arbutus, the fir, and the ash succeed them ; and alarger-leaved species of valonidi supplies the place of that which we have lost. Even thenoble crags which form the summits of these mountains are almost hidden among beautifultrees. The fir-trees of the utmost heights are very noble. One of the finest and broadest valleys of Gilead is that near El Hosn, which Lord Lindsaythus describes:— A beautiful narrow glen ushered us into a broad valley, richly wooded to the summits ofthe hills with noble prickly-oaks, a few pine-trees towering over them. I never should havethought that the shrub which I had seen covering the hills at Hebron could have attainedsuch size and beauty : yet the leaf of the largest tree is not larger than the shrubs. I saw anoccasional dcgub tree, or arbutus, but the prevailing trees were oaks, prickly and broad-leafed :it was forest scenery of the noblest character—next to that of Old England, with which none Iever saw can stand [View in the Laud of Moab.] The Land of Moab.—In fixing the northern border of this land at the river Jabbok, weare influenced chiefly by the desire to avoid minute subdivisions in a cursory survey like thaton which we are now engaged. In this we imitate the Scripture, which, when it speakslargely and generally, appears to give the same extent to the land of Moab. The fact is, thatall this territory was once occupied by the Moabites; but the northern part—nearest theJabbok—was taken from them by the Amorites, and erected into an independent the possession of this people the Israelites found it when they marched from the desert The above general account of Gilead has been drawn up from the various particulars dispersed in Lord Lindsays largeaccount (ii. 99, 101, 109, 120, 124-126, 142), with the help of ideas previously derived from Burckhardt, Buckingham, and Irbyand Mangles. cxxxvi PHYSICAL HIS
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