The Holy Land and the Bible; . tic deeds of Richard the Lion-hearted, but they are silent enoughnow. The landscape rises and falls in low swells; fallows alternatingwith sown fields; the soil nearly black, and evidently very great plains of Philistia and Sharon may yet have a Iuture, ifthe curse of God, in the form of Turkish rule, be removed. The gar-dens at Joppa show what glorious vegetation water and industry cancreate, even where the invadii^g sand has to be fought, and we mayimagine what results similar irrigation and industry would create overthe wide expanse. The scarcit
The Holy Land and the Bible; . tic deeds of Richard the Lion-hearted, but they are silent enoughnow. The landscape rises and falls in low swells; fallows alternatingwith sown fields; the soil nearly black, and evidently very great plains of Philistia and Sharon may yet have a Iuture, ifthe curse of God, in the form of Turkish rule, be removed. The gar-dens at Joppa show what glorious vegetation water and industry cancreate, even where the invadii^g sand has to be fought, and we mayimagine what results similar irrigation and industry would create overthe wide expanse. The scarcity of wood is the one feature that lessensthe general charm, for excepting the orchards and olive-groves, oftenvery small, round isolated villages, there are no trees. So much isthis the case indeed that here, as in Egypt, the only fuel in many partsfor cooking or heating, if there be no thorns, is dried camel or cow 1 Ihkl., i. 291, 292. 2 1 Cliron. xviii. 1. 3 2 Chron. xi. 8. 4 2 Kings xii. 17. 5 Mic. i. 10. 6 1 Sam,xxvii. Valley and ruins of Charetun seen from the cave of Adullam. ibee page < 1.; ^?^•J LOCALITllvS FAMOUS IN DAVIds LIFE. 81 dung made into cakes. Children, esj)ecially girls, may be seen eagerlygathering the materials for it, wherever found, or kneading them intodisks, which are then stuck against a wall, or laid out on the earth todry.^ In use, however, this fuel is not at all objectionable, for itemits no disagreeable smell, and communicates no bad taste to foodprepared with it. In its burning it is very like peat, as it may wellbe, since both are really only so much woody fibre. The little village of Tell et Turmus bes about six miles nearly westfrom Tell es Safieh, on a low rise of ground. Near at hand is a deep,well-built cistern, covered by a low dome; a channel connecting itwith a tank close by, about three feet deep, which is filled, to savelabor and time in watering the flocks and herds, not very numerousin such a community. The houses were no
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