A Californian circling the globe . hen Ibegan to realize that after many days of waiting and watchingwe had really entered and were traveling in the land ofpromise. We crossed this river on an old Roman bridgewith one span between the arches so nearly gone that only alittle narrow pathway of slippery stones are left, on which wecarefully treaded our way across. This river had fully 2000inches of water, the third important source of the old village of Dan is about five miles west of CaesareaPhilippi, and on the eastern edge of the valley of the valley, as we passed down i
A Californian circling the globe . hen Ibegan to realize that after many days of waiting and watchingwe had really entered and were traveling in the land ofpromise. We crossed this river on an old Roman bridgewith one span between the arches so nearly gone that only alittle narrow pathway of slippery stones are left, on which wecarefully treaded our way across. This river had fully 2000inches of water, the third important source of the old village of Dan is about five miles west of CaesareaPhilippi, and on the eastern edge of the valley of the valley, as we passed down its western edge, is about fivemiles wide. We came to a threshing scene where three oxenwere treading out maize or corn. I looked to see if they weremuzzled as I remembered that in the Bible it says: Thoushalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out thecorn. They had no muzzles on and were being driven roundand round on a pile of ears of corn. Of course, the cornof the Bible is one of the small grains called corn in Europe. TREADING CORN WITH OXEN, JORDAN VALLEY, PALESTINE. EPHESUS, DAMASCUS AND PALESTINE. 169 to this day. On our right were high hills once occupied bythe tribe of Naphtali. We saw many threshing floors ofcorn, as by using the waters of the Jordan for irrigation,many hundreds of acres of corn were being harvested andthreshed. We saw for the first time the celebrated bulls ofBashan, one whole herd of them in the large irrigating ditchso covered with water that only their heads were abovewater. In and among the corn stalks and elsewhere we sawmillions of crows, and I presume some ravens were amongthem. When we were in Russia we thought that country hadmost of the crows, yet we found many all over were plenty. In one square foot of water I sawten in one bunch. Centuries ago B. C. Abraham pursued thekings of Mesopotamia who were carrying Lot and his goodsinto captivity. Their route was over the very ground wewere traveling on, and Abraham
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