. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . n the north Mount Hermon 1 Nee Solomon.—3 Exod. xv., 14; Isa. xiv., 29, 31;Joel iii., 1., PALESTINE 707 PALESTINE lifts its head,wrapped in per-petual snow,3000 feet aboveour own waters ofthe Dead Sea liein a basin scoop-ed out of the sol-id rock, nearly,if not quite, asfar below the lev-el of the oceanas the deepestmines of Corn-wall. The Jor-dan, a mountainstream whosetumultuous tor-rent finds no
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . n the north Mount Hermon 1 Nee Solomon.—3 Exod. xv., 14; Isa. xiv., 29, 31;Joel iii., 1., PALESTINE 707 PALESTINE lifts its head,wrapped in per-petual snow,3000 feet aboveour own waters ofthe Dead Sea liein a basin scoop-ed out of the sol-id rock, nearly,if not quite, asfar below the lev-el of the oceanas the deepestmines of Corn-wall. The Jor-dan, a mountainstream whosetumultuous tor-rent finds noequal iu any riv-er of its size andlength in theworld, carriesthe snows ofthe one into thebriny waters ofthe other. With-in sight of itscentral hills beatthe waves of theMediterraneanupon 150 milesof coast. Sothat in this oneprovince, small-er than Massa-chusetts or Ver-mont, are min-gled the ocean,the mountain,the valley, theriver, the lake,the desert, andthe plain. Byits physical fea-tures, Palestineis divided intothree long andnarrow sections 2. Tyre. 3. Dan. 4. Tiberias. 5. Tabor. 6. Carmel. 7. Samaria. 8. Shechem. 9. Jerusalem. 10. Bethlehem. 11. Hebron. 12. Physical Map of Palestine. parallel to each other, and nearly parallel tothe coast—the valley of the Jordan, withthe Dead Sea; the hill country of CentralPalestine; and the rich and fertile lowlandswhich border the Mediterranean. I. The Jordan Valley.—This valley beginswith the river at its remotest springs ofHasbeiya, on the north-west side of Her-eon, and accompanies it to the lower endof the Dead Sea, a length of about 150miles. During the whole of this distanceits course is very winding, though its gen-eral direction is nearly due north and springs of Hasbeiya are 1700 feet abovethe level of the Mediterranean, and the northern end of the Dead Sea is 1317 feetbelow it, so that between these two pointsthe valley falls with more or less regulari-ty through a height of more than 3000 wid
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