The Holy Land and the Bible; . Abouta mile south is the Wady Lejja, which, although only showing poolshere and there in summer, bears a strong tributarj- to the Aujeh inthe rainy months; the two uniting about three miles beyond Ras-el-Ain. Eest after toil is sweet. The descent from Tibneh had been mostfatiguing. A Eoman road may have been very nice in its day, butafter 1,600 or 1,700 years use, without repair, its condition is distress-ing enough. Had we been grandees it might have been made some-what better for us, for it is still the custom, as it was in antiquity, toprepare the way, to cast
The Holy Land and the Bible; . Abouta mile south is the Wady Lejja, which, although only showing poolshere and there in summer, bears a strong tributarj- to the Aujeh inthe rainy months; the two uniting about three miles beyond Ras-el-Ain. Eest after toil is sweet. The descent from Tibneh had been mostfatiguing. A Eoman road may have been very nice in its day, butafter 1,600 or 1,700 years use, without repair, its condition is distress-ing enough. Had we been grandees it might have been made some-what better for us, for it is still the custom, as it was in antiquity, toprepare the way, to cast up a highway and clear away thestones, ^ in anticipation of the passage of any great personage. Whenone of the Russian Grand Dukes was travelling in the Holy Landlately, the so called road between Jerusalem and Nablus, a distance of 1 Jos. Ant, xvi. 5, 2; Bell. Jud., i. 21, 9. 2 See Pal. Fund RepU., 1874, pp. 185,193; PcU Memoir, 3 Isa. xl. 3,4; xlix. 11; Ivii. 14; Ixii. 10; Mai. iii. 1. -7r-n^4:-Hfv«^;^(:,Svi?;,. Tliy terrihh-ncss lialh deoeivtd thee, iind tlie pride oftlune , O thou that dwellest in tlie clefts of theUK-k. that holdest tlie heijrht of the hill : fclioush thousliouldest inaUe thy nest as high as the eaijle, I willliriiiij thee down from thence, saith the Lord.— 10. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.—Matt. v. It. KLl-NS OF AMWAS AND LATRUN. (See page 33.) ?1 THE PLAIN OF SHARON. 41 forty miles, usually rovi<ih beyond description, was repaired through-out. The stones were gathered out, the sides built u[) where they hadgiven way, and earth strewn on the Ixtre sheets of rock, over which,till then, the traveller had the greatest difficulty in passing Consul Rich was travelling through Koordistan, ten or fifteenpeasants accomjvanied him, to act as pioneers in rej^airing bridges, andsmoothing rougli j)laces. We can understand from such customs thelanguage of the j)rophet respecting the triumphal return oitlie
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