The Holy Land and the Bible; . g too shallow topermit a nearer approach to the old tumble-down quay, built of stonesfrom the ruins of Caesarea ; the base or capital of a pillar sticking outhere and there, mixed with gi-eat bevelled blocks of conjectural anti-quity. Strong arms lift and push you up a rough step or two, and youare fairly ashore, to find yourself amidst the houses, streets, and peopleof a new world. There has always been the same difficulty in landing, for the rockshave been as formidable from the beginning of time, the water overthem as treacherous, and the inside bay as shallow
The Holy Land and the Bible; . g too shallow topermit a nearer approach to the old tumble-down quay, built of stonesfrom the ruins of Caesarea ; the base or capital of a pillar sticking outhere and there, mixed with gi-eat bevelled blocks of conjectural anti-quity. Strong arms lift and push you up a rough step or two, and youare fairly ashore, to find yourself amidst the houses, streets, and peopleof a new world. There has always been the same difficulty in landing, for the rockshave been as formidable from the beginning of time, the water overthem as treacherous, and the inside bay as shallow off shore, so thatyon have fared no worse than bead-eyed Greeks or hook-nosed Romansdid tiiousands of years ago. While Palestine was held by the Chris-tian nations, Venice organized a spring ^ud autumn packet-service toJoppa, and built a mole, of which the remains were still visible lastcentury, to protect the shi])ping. It n|ipe:irs. liowever, to have beenof little use, and since then, under the Arab and Turk, everything has. VIEW OF THE HAEBOR OF JOPPA. JOPPA AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD. 9 relapsed into a state of nature. On a coast so exposed the beach mustalways have been strewn with wrecks after great storms, before steamenabled vessels to bear out to sea and escape. About tliirtj years agothe remains of a galley of great antiquity were dug up, in some exca-vations on the shore; and Josephus tells us of a terrible loss of life ina gale off the port in the reign of Vespasian.^ Fhosnician, Egyptian,Syrian, Roman, Crusading, and modern fleets have all alike paid theirtribute to the angry waters. But T must mount my donke}^ and get to the hotel, at the north endof the town. No trouble has been given at the Custom House; in-deed, I had nothing to do with it, a dragoman, or guide, who speaksEnglish, managing all, for me and the rest of the European road leads along a miserable apology for a street. Once paved,the stones have Ions; aoo risen or sunk into the ideal of
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