The innocents abroad; . present at all. Some people can notstand prosperity. Tliey say that the long-nosed, lanky, dyspeptic-looking body-snatchers, with the indescribable hats on, and a long curldangling down in front of each ear, are the old, familiar, self-righteous Pharisees we read of in the Scriptures. Yerily, theylook it. Judging merely by their general style, and without 506 OLD TIBERIAS. other evidence, one might easily suspect tliat self-righteousnesswas their specialty. From various authorities I have culled information concern-ing Tiberias, It was built by Herod Antipas, the murder
The innocents abroad; . present at all. Some people can notstand prosperity. Tliey say that the long-nosed, lanky, dyspeptic-looking body-snatchers, with the indescribable hats on, and a long curldangling down in front of each ear, are the old, familiar, self-righteous Pharisees we read of in the Scriptures. Yerily, theylook it. Judging merely by their general style, and without 506 OLD TIBERIAS. other evidence, one might easily suspect tliat self-righteousnesswas their specialty. From various authorities I have culled information concern-ing Tiberias, It was built by Herod Antipas, the murdererof John the Baptist, and named after the Emperor is believed that it stands upon the site of what must havebeen, ages ago, a city of considerable architectural pretensions,judging by the fine porphyry pillars that are scattered throughTiberias and down the lake shore southward. These werefluted, once, and yet, although the stone is about as hard asiron, the flutings are almost worn away. These pillars are. TIBERIAS, AND SEA OF GALILEE. small, and doubtless the edifices they adorned were distin-guished more for elegance than grandeur. This modern town—Tiberias—is only mentioned in the New Testament; neverill the Old. The Sanhedrim met here last, and for three hundred years CONTRASTED SCEKERY. 507 Tiberias was the metropolis of the Jews in Palestine. It isone of the four holy cities of the Israelites, and is to them whatMecca is to the Mohammedan and Jerusalem to the has been the abiding place of many learned and famousJewish rabbins. They lie buried here, and near them lie alsotwenty-five thousand of their faith who traveled far to be nearthem while they lived and lie with them when they died. Taegreat Rabbi Ben Israel spent three years here in the early partof the third century. He is dead, now. The celebrated Sea of Galilee is not so large a sea as LakeTahoe* by a good deal—it is just about two-thirds as when we come to speak of beaut
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