. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . the eye, the onlymode of husbanding so scanty a coating ofsoil, and preventing its being washed by thetorrents into the valleys. Besides this, for-ests appear to have stood in many partsof Judea until the repeated invasions and lively, wooded mound, or leaping headloDg,foaming and roaring, from a mountain cave,are rarely met with out of rocky, mountain-ous countries, and, being such unusual sights,can hardly be looked
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . the eye, the onlymode of husbanding so scanty a coating ofsoil, and preventing its being washed by thetorrents into the valleys. Besides this, for-ests appear to have stood in many partsof Judea until the repeated invasions and lively, wooded mound, or leaping headloDg,foaming and roaring, from a mountain cave,are rarely met with out of rocky, mountain-ous countries, and, being such unusual sights,can hardly be looked on by the travelerwithout surprise and emotion. But, addedto their natural impressiveness, there is theconsideration of the prominent part whichso many of these springs have played in his-tory. Even the caverns are not more charac-teristic of Palestine, or oftener mentioned inthe Biblical narrative. But with all its rich-ness, there is a strange dearth of naturalwood about this central district. No soon-er, however, is the plain of Esdraelon pass-ed than a considerable improvement is per-ceptible. The low hills which spread downfrom the mountains of Galilee, and form the. Southern Palestine, from the Mount of Olives. sieges caused their fall, and the wretchedTurks prevented their reinstatement., Advancing northward from Judea, thecountry becomes gradually more open andpleasant. Plains of good soil occur be-tween the hills, at first small, but afterwardcomparatively large. The hills assume amore varied aspect than in the southern dis-tricts, springs are more abundant and morepermanent, until at last, when the ancientMount Ephraim is reached, the traveler en-counters an atmosphere and an amount ofvegetation and water greatly superior toany thing in Judea, and even sufficient torecall much of the scenery of the glorious fountains, welling out fromdeej) blue recesses worn in the limestonerock, or eddying forth from the base of a barrier between the plains of Akka and Es-
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