Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . in otherssinking by steps towards the Dead Sea, where they forma lofty table-land from 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the levelof the waters. This plateau is cut up by deep gorges,worn by the torrents and also by volcanic green refreshes the eye over the wide stream waters it but when the rains for a time fill thewadys with rushing torrents. Only the black tents ofwandering Arabs vary the dreary prospect, except where * =Let them descend to the darkness of Sheol,—the under-world—th
Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . in otherssinking by steps towards the Dead Sea, where they forma lofty table-land from 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the levelof the waters. This plateau is cut up by deep gorges,worn by the torrents and also by volcanic green refreshes the eye over the wide stream waters it but when the rains for a time fill thewadys with rushing torrents. Only the black tents ofwandering Arabs vary the dreary prospect, except where * =Let them descend to the darkness of Sheol,—the under-world—that is, let them Ps. Ixiii. 3, Tent Work, p. 244. The pass of Ziz = that of Engedi. DAVID AN OUTLAW. 171 the mouths of ravines show the Dead Sea far below, andthe mountains of Moab beyond it.^ Retiring gradually to the eastern edge of this desolateregion, on the short-lived spring herbage of which he hadoften pastured his flocks in happier days, David at lastsought a retreat in the cliffs of Engedi,— the Spring ofthe Goats—on the edge of the Dead Sea. The scenery ^j. Ehgedi, lookino South.—Lie«t. Conder, here is savage m the extreme. Precipices on three sides,bounded by tremendous gorges, run down to the shorebeneath. A winding track cut in the perpendicularrocks is the only means of descent; a single false step isdeath, for it would hurl one to the bottom, 2,000 feetbelow. A warm spring, from which the place takesits name, bursts from under a huge boulder 1,340 feetbeneath the summit; the water streaming over the steep * Furrer und Schenkel, vol. v. p. 680. Tent Work, p. 263. 172 DAVID AN OUTLAW. from amidst a thicket of canes and bushes, the homeof thrushes, grakles, and warblers; its course marked bya fringe of vegetation as it falls. Six hundred feet below,outside the slope of debris from the heights above, asmall oasis is reached, once famed for its palms, balsam,and wine.^ To this wild spot, well called the rocksof the wild goats,^ since only t
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