The Holy Land and Syria . r long stretches through the desert, and many of thetrains carry large tanks to keep the boilers full. I travelled over a part of the Mecca road on my way fromthe Holy Land north to Damascus. Leaving Tiberiasin the early morning, I was rowed by four lusty Syriansacross the Sea of Galilee to Semakh, which is the stationon the lower end of that sea and the place where a branchline runs off to Haifa. From there northward we skirtedthe east side of the Sea of Galilee, passing the hills uponwhich our Saviour preached. We rode up the valley ofthe Yarmuk, a stream almost as
The Holy Land and Syria . r long stretches through the desert, and many of thetrains carry large tanks to keep the boilers full. I travelled over a part of the Mecca road on my way fromthe Holy Land north to Damascus. Leaving Tiberiasin the early morning, I was rowed by four lusty Syriansacross the Sea of Galilee to Semakh, which is the stationon the lower end of that sea and the place where a branchline runs off to Haifa. From there northward we skirtedthe east side of the Sea of Galilee, passing the hills uponwhich our Saviour preached. We rode up the valley ofthe Yarmuk, a stream almost as large as the Jordan, whichloses itself in the Jordan farther south. We climbed thefoothills of Lebanon, and at about three thousand feetabove the surface of the Sea of Galilee reached the richplain of Hauran, the great bread basket of the grows wheat and other grain, and the land near thetrack was covered with poppies, golden daisies, and wildred hollyhocks. We could see Bedouin camps everywhere. These no- 244. The students of the American Universit\- at Beirut number nearly athousand, and, whether Christian, Jew, or Moslem, must stud\- the Bible
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