. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. larke, ; Burckhardt, 332; Buckingham, chap, xxvi.; Irby and Mangles, 295 ; Jowett, 172-176; Memoir of Rev. Pliny Fisk,Boston, U. S. 344-7 ; Hardy, 237-241; Skinner, ii. 283, 291, 292; Stephens, ii. 329-333; Elliot, ii. 342-350; Lindsay, ii. 89—93. e * Thou land of peace, thou mayest have confidence ; yet how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? xii. 5. Behold as alion Cometh up, a strong one from the swelling of Jordan, xlix. 19 ; repeated in chap. 1. 44.—Blayneys Translation. clxviii PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PA
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. larke, ; Burckhardt, 332; Buckingham, chap, xxvi.; Irby and Mangles, 295 ; Jowett, 172-176; Memoir of Rev. Pliny Fisk,Boston, U. S. 344-7 ; Hardy, 237-241; Skinner, ii. 283, 291, 292; Stephens, ii. 329-333; Elliot, ii. 342-350; Lindsay, ii. 89—93. e * Thou land of peace, thou mayest have confidence ; yet how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? xii. 5. Behold as alion Cometh up, a strong one from the swelling of Jordan, xlix. 19 ; repeated in chap. 1. 44.—Blayneys Translation. clxviii PHYSICAL HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Chap. VI. the few spots in which it may be crossed during the rainy season are known only to theArabs. On leaving the Lake of Tiberias it flows for about three hours near the westernhills, and then turns towards the eastern, on which side it continues its course for severalhours. Dr. Richardson states that three streams issue from the lake, which soon unite to re-formthe Jordan. This was in May ; and the circumstance is not noticed by other travellers, who. [The Jordan leaving the Lake.] describe the issuing river as a single stream. The Jordan rushes from the lake with consi-derable force in a stream which is about fourteen yards across at the end of April. There aresome remains of a bridge, a little below, but the stream is now crossed at this point in a crazyferry-boat. It will be recollected that there were ferry-boats on the river in the reign We find no notice of its being in use later than April : so it seems probable that theriver cannot here be forded in winter and early spring, when, of course, the river must eventhere have its volume of water greatly increased by the rise of the waters in the lake. In May (15th) we find it said that at this place the stream is now forded by the Arabs,who swim their animals across. b The Rev. P. Fisk, who was here in November (11th), androde a little way down the bank, says,— The river bends often, and varies
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