. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . solitary sentinel ofby-gone generations. It has maintained its lonely watchover the plain for at least two thousand years. The shaftis composed of ten pieces, each three feet thick, and hence itis thirty feet long, standing on a base ten feet high and ninefeet square. The entire elevation of this singular columnis therefore forty feet, and it is sixteen feet in couise it must have had a statue or something else onthe top to give it symmetry, but wha
. The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . solitary sentinel ofby-gone generations. It has maintained its lonely watchover the plain for at least two thousand years. The shaftis composed of ten pieces, each three feet thick, and hence itis thirty feet long, standing on a base ten feet high and ninefeet square. The entire elevation of this singular columnis therefore forty feet, and it is sixteen feet in couise it must have had a statue or something else onthe top to give it symmetry, but what that was, and howhigh, no one can tell; nor when, by whom, or for what itwas erected. Those wlio sought to immortalize their namesor deeds by it have utterly failed. This column is now call-ed Hiimsin, and also Minawat, from this collection of ruinsin its neighborhood. Scattered over this hill side below thecolumn are the remains ofa large town, but without a this to Bussa is a little more than half an hour, butwc shall not go any farther than to this very ancient site, Gen. iv. 20. 476 THE LAND AND THE called Ammariyeh, from which much of the stone used inbuilding Bussa has been quarried. They are at it even now,and you see in this spot a striking proof of extreme an-tiquity. These men are digging out old foundations manyfeet deep in the soil, beneath an aged olive-tree which theyarc undermining. Now these houses were ancient ruins,buried thus deep under rubbish before this olive could havebeen planted, and the tree itself is many hundred years is another very large ruin in the valley east of Bussa,called Masfiba, from which marble slabs and sarcophagi arealso quarried, some of which have Greek inscriptions. Andstill fiirther up the country are other sites of ancient places,which ] have examined on former occasions. The path toAlma leads over that rocky mountain to the northeast, andit takes about an hour and a quarter to reach it. But nowfor Acr
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