. A dictionary of the Bible .. . The Dead Sea.—^View from Ain Jt ly^ looking South From a Diawmg made on the spot in 1842 bv ^\ Tipping, Esq Dead Sea at sunset, known as The Emily Beaufort and her sister, in December1860, accomplished the ascent of Masada, and thejourney from thence to Ain Jidy ; and the samething, including Usdum, was done in April 1863by a party consisting of Mr. G. Clowes, jun.,llr. Straton, and others. 11. The western range preserves for the greaterpart of its length a couise hardly less regular thanthe eastern. That it does not appear so regularwhen viewed
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . The Dead Sea.—^View from Ain Jt ly^ looking South From a Diawmg made on the spot in 1842 bv ^\ Tipping, Esq Dead Sea at sunset, known as The Emily Beaufort and her sister, in December1860, accomplished the ascent of Masada, and thejourney from thence to Ain Jidy ; and the samething, including Usdum, was done in April 1863by a party consisting of Mr. G. Clowes, jun.,llr. Straton, and others. 11. The western range preserves for the greaterpart of its length a couise hardly less regular thanthe eastern. That it does not appear so regularwhen viewed from the north-western end of the lakeis owing to the projection of a mass of the moun-tain eastward from the line sufficiently far to shutout from view the range to the south of it. It isDr. Robinsons opinion (Z?. R. i. 510, 11) that theprojection consists of the Eas el Feshhhah and itsadjacent cliffs only, and that from that head-land the western range runs in a tolerably directcourse as far as Usdum, at the corner of t
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