The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . which conducted water into Jerusalem, possibly in part to be attributed to the reign of Solomon, arethe only instances to which anything like a certain date may be assigned. But these are long posteriorto the XVIII dyuasty. Good judges, however, attribute some of these monuments to a very distantperiod : the masonry of the wells of Beersheba is very ancient (H. Paljieb, Tlie Desert of the Exodus,vol. ii. pp. 3S7-390), if not as it is at present, at least as it was when it was repaired in the timeof the CiBsars (GnEKiN, Judge, vol. ii. p
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . which conducted water into Jerusalem, possibly in part to be attributed to the reign of Solomon, arethe only instances to which anything like a certain date may be assigned. But these are long posteriorto the XVIII dyuasty. Good judges, however, attribute some of these monuments to a very distantperiod : the masonry of the wells of Beersheba is very ancient (H. Paljieb, Tlie Desert of the Exodus,vol. ii. pp. 3S7-390), if not as it is at present, at least as it was when it was repaired in the timeof the CiBsars (GnEKiN, Judge, vol. ii. pp. 283, 2S1); the olive and wine presses hewn in the rock donot all date back to the Iloniau empire, but many belong to a still earlier period, and moderndescriptions (cf. Guekin, JiulA; vol. iii. pp. 261-273) correspond with what we know of such pressesfrom the Bible ( Micah vi. 15; Isa. v. 2, svi. 10; Jer. xxv. 30, xlviii. 33). * Gtjerin, Description de la Palestine, Judge, vol. iii. pp. 260, 261, 288, etc. THE FOREST BETWEEN JAFFA AND CARMEL. 133. SHECHE3I IN THE MIDDLE OP ANAMPHITHEATRE OF HILLS. nomenclature in tlie Egyptian geographical lists reflects as in a mirror theagricultural pursuits of its ancient inhabitants : one vilhxge, for instance, is calledAubila, the meadow; while others bear such names as Ganutu, the gardens ; Magraphut, the mounds; and Karman, the The further weproceed towards the north, we find, with a diminishing aridity, the hillsidescovered with richer crops, and the valleys decked out with a more luxuriant andwarmly coloured vegetation. Shechem lies in an actual amphitheatre of verdure,which is irrigated by countless unfailing streams; rushing brooks babble onevery side, and the vapour given off by them morning and evening covers theentire landscape with a luminous haze, where the outline of each object becomesblurred, and quivers in a manner to which we are accustomed in our Westernlands. Towns grew and multijilied upon this rich and
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