A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900 . View on the Road to Jericho. The only House by the Dead Sea THE DEAD SEA 293 The road, or rather track, from Jericho to theDead Sea is bad in spots, especially at certain steepbits where it crosses streams, or nullahs. It is, however,wonderful what obstacles a Jerusalem rattle-trap willnegotiate in safety. No English driver would dreamof taking his carriage down such places. The trail runsacross an arid plain impregnated with salt and bearinga scanty vegetation.
A winter pilgrimage : being an account of travels through Palestine, Italy, and the island of Cyprus, accomplished in the year 1900 . View on the Road to Jericho. The only House by the Dead Sea THE DEAD SEA 293 The road, or rather track, from Jericho to theDead Sea is bad in spots, especially at certain steepbits where it crosses streams, or nullahs. It is, however,wonderful what obstacles a Jerusalem rattle-trap willnegotiate in safety. No English driver would dreamof taking his carriage down such places. The trail runsacross an arid plain impregnated with salt and bearinga scanty vegetation. Here and there among the bushesbloom ranunculi, while little iris of a peculiarly deepand lovely hue are common. Also many great, eagle-like birds—I imagine they are a kind of kite, thoughwhat they all find to live on I cannot quite understand—flit solemnly from thorn to thorn, while porcupinesburrow in the sand. Every one, at Sunday-school or elsewhere, has learntwhat there is to learn about the Dead Sea. They knowhow it receives between six and seven million tons ofwater daily and evaporates as much or more; how ithas no outlet, is over 1000 feet de
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