The Holy Land and Syria . fthe people who used to live there. Palestine, on the otherhand, could never have had a very large population, andthe hosts spoken of in the Scriptures would dwindleby comparison with the numbers of people we are usedto nowadays. The trip from Jaffa to Jerusalem gives us a fair ideaof the character of the country. The coastal plain istypical of the richest part. Its soil is a chocolate brown,the grass is as green as that of Egypt, and there are greatorchards of olives and fruits of all kinds. The roads arelined with rich red poppies and there are wild flowers onall si
The Holy Land and Syria . fthe people who used to live there. Palestine, on the otherhand, could never have had a very large population, andthe hosts spoken of in the Scriptures would dwindleby comparison with the numbers of people we are usedto nowadays. The trip from Jaffa to Jerusalem gives us a fair ideaof the character of the country. The coastal plain istypical of the richest part. Its soil is a chocolate brown,the grass is as green as that of Egypt, and there are greatorchards of olives and fruits of all kinds. The roads arelined with rich red poppies and there are wild flowers onall sides. Climbing the hills is like jumping from the Nile Valleyinto the desert. There is nothing but rocks with a sparsevegetation scattered here and there through them. Thelimestone crops out everywhere, and in places heaps ofstones have been thrown up to make little fields. Suchfields are fenced with stone walls. There are also corralsfor the sheep made in this way. Palestine has no woods. There are no groves or bushes. 32. Fuel is so scarce in this land of no woods that even roots and twigsbring good prices. Two years of poor olive crops often drive the peasantsto cutting down their precious olive trees and selling them
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