. Sacred geography, and antiquities . SHKCHEM, EBAL AND GERIZIM. PALESTINE. 53 selves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them outthence. Amos 9 : 3. Whether the reference be to these laby-rinths of caverns and grottos, which, as travellers tell us, arevery tortuous and open one into another, or, as Thomson seemsto intimate (Land and Book, 2, p. 230), to the deep and windingravines filled with tangled brushwood, it is equally beautiful andpertinent. The northeastern side of the ridge is more steep andprecipitous than the southwestern; which latter *sinks downgradually into w
. Sacred geography, and antiquities . SHKCHEM, EBAL AND GERIZIM. PALESTINE. 53 selves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them outthence. Amos 9 : 3. Whether the reference be to these laby-rinths of caverns and grottos, which, as travellers tell us, arevery tortuous and open one into another, or, as Thomson seemsto intimate (Land and Book, 2, p. 230), to the deep and windingravines filled with tangled brushwood, it is equally beautiful andpertinent. The northeastern side of the ridge is more steep andprecipitous than the southwestern; which latter *sinks downgradually into wooded hills with well-watered valleys, present-ing to the eye a district of great beauty, rich in tillage and pas-turage, declining gently into the southern plain and the adja-cent lower hills. Eobinson, Phys. Geog. p. 29. The ridge ofCarmel is tolerably continuous, rising from the northwesternend, where its elevation is about 600 feet above the sea, to thevillage of Esfieh, where it attains to the elevation of 1,729 it falls off a
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