. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... t repose. Formerly it was open and accessible toall, but now it is surrounded by a stone wall twenty feet is an area of 120 feet east and west, and 150 north and entrance is through a low iron gate on the eastern side,and the keeper is an old Franciscan monk. With a skillfulhand he has transformed the inclosure into a pretty but notgorgeous garden. On the east are thr
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... t repose. Formerly it was open and accessible toall, but now it is surrounded by a stone wall twenty feet is an area of 120 feet east and west, and 150 north and entrance is through a low iron gate on the eastern side,and the keeper is an old Franciscan monk. With a skillfulhand he has transformed the inclosure into a pretty but notgorgeous garden. On the east are three terraces, adornedAvith flowers. On the first is a well of delicious water, coveredwith trellis-work, on Avhich are vines, and in the northeast cor-ner is the monks cell. A graveled Avalk folloAvs the circuit ofthe walls, and on the interior of the walls are pictures repre-senting memorable scenes in the last night of our Lords centre of the area is inclosed with a high j)icket fence, andthe ground within is laid out in floAver-beds. As memorialsof the past, he has cultivated the graceful but bitter Avorm-Avood, and also tlie beautiful passion-floAver—the. symbol of j;i!^^??;-i ^^#>V ^-. FKOM DAN TO BEEKSUEBA. 121 agony. Near them are a few palms and cypresses. Withparental care he has nourished the eight remaining olive-trees,beneath which he thinks the fearful struggle occurred. Theybear marks of great age, and are now the oldest on the faceof the earth. Their trunks are gnarled and hollow, their foli-age scanty, and, true to their species in old age, their roots arefar above the ground, but at present covered with an artificialsoil. One, more venerable than the rest, is seven feet in cir-cumference, and has separated into four parts from the rootsupward to the branches; a second is twisted with age; and athird is hollow. But the branches are strong, the leaf green,and from the aged roots young trees are sprouting—successorsto these patriarchal shades. Geths
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