A dictionary of the . mountain, inwhose caverned cliffs repose the ashes ofmany a learned rabbin, while over all ap-peared the graceful rounded top of to the right, on the white strand,I saw the huts of Magdala. with the coastof Gennesaret extending from it north-ward to Capernaum—Christs own city. GAL GAL At the present time the lake is almost ut-terly forsaken : only three or four fisher-boats can be found there; while at thetime of Christ it was covered with sail-ing-vessels, and the surrounding westernshore (the plain of Gennesarel) was, ac-cording to the glowing desc
A dictionary of the . mountain, inwhose caverned cliffs repose the ashes ofmany a learned rabbin, while over all ap-peared the graceful rounded top of to the right, on the white strand,I saw the huts of Magdala. with the coastof Gennesaret extending from it north-ward to Capernaum—Christs own city. GAL GAL At the present time the lake is almost ut-terly forsaken : only three or four fisher-boats can be found there; while at thetime of Christ it was covered with sail-ing-vessels, and the surrounding westernshore (the plain of Gennesarel) was, ac-cording to the glowing description of Jo-sephus, a paradise of beauty and R. and C. R. Cornier describe the famous sea as pear-shaped, and resem-bling in size the English lake Winder-mere. They add: It is surroundedwith precipices of limestone, except onthe north, where a shelving slope leadsto the shore from a plateau of basalt ex-tending from the foot of the highestrange of Upper Galilee. The sceneryof the lake is bare, and much tamer. The Sea of Galilee from Tiberias. (After original Photograph.) than that of the Dead Sea. The beach isnarrow except on the north-west, wherethe cliffs recede, leaving a fertile plain(Gennesaret), 2£ miles long and I milebroad, watered by several fine pebbly open shore on the north isbroken into numerous bays, and isfringed with dark oleander the south-eastern side is a palm-grove, and a few palms dot the westernshore. The ruddy cliffs on the west andthe steep slopes on the east are bare anddesolate, but the sweet waters of thelake, in calm weather mirroring thesurrounding hills and shining in thesun, present a beautiful scene, espe-cially at evening. The sea is remark-able for its shoals of fish, for the vio-21 lence of its sudden thunder-storms, andfor the hot springs along its shores. Theneighborhood of the lake is also pecu-liarly subject to volcanic disturbances.—Handbook of the Bible, p. 215 (1879).The Rev. Dr. S. Manning enco
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