Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . tion was conspicuous, bearingN. byE. We had now a considerable descent on the other side of the ridge; wesoon passed Kubatieh, a large village in the midst of very extensive andbeautiful olive groves, and at about six oclock we had left the beautifulcountry of Samaria, and were entering the little town of Jenin, standing onthe borders of Galilee, at the commencement of the great plain of town, the Josephus, has usually passed for the site of ancie
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . tion was conspicuous, bearingN. byE. We had now a considerable descent on the other side of the ridge; wesoon passed Kubatieh, a large village in the midst of very extensive andbeautiful olive groves, and at about six oclock we had left the beautifulcountry of Samaria, and were entering the little town of Jenin, standing onthe borders of Galilee, at the commencement of the great plain of town, the Josephus, has usually passed for the site of ancientJezreel, an error corrected by Dr. Robinson, who has identified the latterwith Zerin, a small vil-lage about seven milesfurther north. Early in the morningwe left Jenin, by a roadleading a little north ofeast to Beisan, the Beth-shan of Scripture, wherethe Philistines fastenedthe bodies of Saul andhis three sons to thewalls after they hadfallen in Mount Gil-boa. That mountain We CrOSSed On OUr way, E^ampmen^ and found it to be a low range crossing the plain of Jezreel from N. W. to S. E. A proof of its. 432 SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. identity is preserved in the name of a village, Jelbon, through which wepassed : the inhabitants of Jenin now call the range Jebel Fukua, fromthe adjacent village ; but it is hardly probable that others give it thisappellation. Beyond the hills we * fell in with Lord Alvanleys encampment, andfound him and his companion, Mr. St. Leger, safely returned from theirexpedition to Djerash, of which they spoke with much delight. TheirBedouin escort was still with them, and on our arrival jumped into theirsaddles to exhibit their horsemanship. These people were of the purestdesert breed, and a more magnificent specimen of the race of Ishmael I canhardly imagine. They had been brought across Jordan with some trouble bythe agency of Mr. Young for Lord Alvanleys journey. Most of them appearedof fully middle age, tall, and blackened almost to a
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