The Jordan Valley and Petra . he baseto purples and yellows and crimsons higher up,bathed and transformed in the brilliant sunshine,till it seemed like an enchanted fairyland. Themain mass from side to side was not less thanfifteen miles in extent, and the height, as it clearedthe surrounding ridges, appeared to be not less thanfour thousand feet above the sea. All the outlineswere smoothed and rounded, as though coveredwith a veil of diaphanous light. Beyond this massto the left stood the sharper peak of Mount Hor,with Aarons tomb glistening in the sunlight, andbelow them both, five thousand
The Jordan Valley and Petra . he baseto purples and yellows and crimsons higher up,bathed and transformed in the brilliant sunshine,till it seemed like an enchanted fairyland. Themain mass from side to side was not less thanfifteen miles in extent, and the height, as it clearedthe surrounding ridges, appeared to be not less thanfour thousand feet above the sea. All the outlineswere smoothed and rounded, as though coveredwith a veil of diaphanous light. Beyond this massto the left stood the sharper peak of Mount Hor,with Aarons tomb glistening in the sunlight, andbelow them both, five thousand feet down andsome distance beyond, was the deep cleft of theArabah, reaching southward toward the Gulf ofAkabah. We gazed enchanted, for somewhere inthe heart of this brilliant mass lay the ancient city ofPetra, about which we had read and dreamed andwere now to see with our own eyes. And here we experienced a genuine all we had read and studied, we had failedto realize that the entrance to Petra from the north. -H. ^
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