Rambles in Bible lands . EAST OF JORDAN 197. AN EASTERN SHEPHERD AND SHEEP pasture land, than Western Palestine, which was whyReuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, who1 had a very great multitude of cattle, so naturallysought their inheritance To the extreme northof it stands the ancient and magnificent city of Damascus,surrounded by thirty miles of apricot groves—truly, asthey say in Syria, a diamond set in emeralds. Ap-proached from Lebanon on the north-west, along thevalley of the river Barada, the Abana of the Bible (thePharpar rises on the south-west),2 at a point on a lof
Rambles in Bible lands . EAST OF JORDAN 197. AN EASTERN SHEPHERD AND SHEEP pasture land, than Western Palestine, which was whyReuben and Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, who1 had a very great multitude of cattle, so naturallysought their inheritance To the extreme northof it stands the ancient and magnificent city of Damascus,surrounded by thirty miles of apricot groves—truly, asthey say in Syria, a diamond set in emeralds. Ap-proached from Lebanon on the north-west, along thevalley of the river Barada, the Abana of the Bible (thePharpar rises on the south-west),2 at a point on a loftycliff, you get a view of the whole city and its exquisitely 1 Num. xxxii. 1-5. 2 2 Kings v. 12. 198 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS verdant surroundings. This was the vast capital of theSyrian empire, a green oasis on the edge of the mighty
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