. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. [Crusaders approaching Jerusalem.] CHAPTER II. [Scene in Mountains of Gilead—Ruins of Jerash.] Palestine, the country in which were transacted the important events which it is the objectof the ensuing history to record, is a small territory on the western borders of Asia, frontino-the Mediterranean, being the south-eastern portion of Syria. On the north this territory isbounded by the Lebanon mountains; but its southern border is lost in the open desert whichseparates Palestine from Egypt, and which formed a
. Palestine : the physical geography and natural history of the Holy Land. [Crusaders approaching Jerusalem.] CHAPTER II. [Scene in Mountains of Gilead—Ruins of Jerash.] Palestine, the country in which were transacted the important events which it is the objectof the ensuing history to record, is a small territory on the western borders of Asia, frontino-the Mediterranean, being the south-eastern portion of Syria. On the north this territory isbounded by the Lebanon mountains; but its southern border is lost in the open desert whichseparates Palestine from Egypt, and which formed a kind of neutral ground between , however, it is necessary to take some line of boundary here, in order that the length ofthe country from north to south may be stated, it cannot be far wrong to draw it from thestream of El Arish (supposed to be the scriptural River of Egypt), eastward to a pointabout 25 geographical miles south of the Dead Sea, on the borders of that valley whichextends between that Sea and the Gulf of Akaba. Assuming this southern boundary, andfixing the northern one at the parallel of the stream whi
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