The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . exhibitedof the sons of Jacob. The road from Jerusalem toJericho is savage in the extreme—^fit scene for theSaviours parable of the Good Samaritan ; and evennow, the wayfaring man is, in that wild and hostilepass and ravine; waylaid, plundered and murdered; andhere it was that Sir F. Henniker was dangerouslywounded, and narrowly escaped with his life. The hills stand about Jerusalem— the holy,though the walls of Ariel, and its towers, have been wasted, and have fallen. Ebal and Geri
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . exhibitedof the sons of Jacob. The road from Jerusalem toJericho is savage in the extreme—^fit scene for theSaviours parable of the Good Samaritan ; and evennow, the wayfaring man is, in that wild and hostilepass and ravine; waylaid, plundered and murdered; andhere it was that Sir F. Henniker was dangerouslywounded, and narrowly escaped with his life. The hills stand about Jerusalem— the holy,though the walls of Ariel, and its towers, have been wasted, and have fallen. Ebal and Gerizim sur-mount the plains of Samaria; the mountains of Leba-non, Galilee and Gilead, Seir and Sinai, are ever-lasting hills, and are so graphically pourtrayed insacred history, that the truth of their lineaments can_not be mistaken. In reference to our preceding remarks, a selectionof some of these scenes may now be made, and mayassist the reader, in conjunction with the pictorialrepresentations of their outlines and features, to form amore definite idea of the topography so celebrated insacred writ. 59. ^ distant viem of Lebanon. In the former chapter we gave a view of the cele-brated cedars of Lebanon, on the flanks of the chainof Libanus, so now a distant prospect of Lebanon isrepresented in the wood-cut, as seen from is the loftiest of the whole Syrian chain ofmountains. Libanus and Antilibanus may be regardedas parallel ridges; the altitude, however, neither ofthe highest summits, nor of their general elevation,has ever been ascertained by barometrical measure-ment ; but calculating from the line of perpetual con-gelation, as applicable to the latitude of this region,the loftiest parts of Lebanon may perhaps be esti-mated, by approximation, at from 9,000 to 10,000 feetabove the level of the Mediterranean sea. MountHermon forms a part of the ridge of Antilibanus, andthis range, which lies over against the chain ofLebanon, properly so called, is not so ele
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