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Title: The book and the land
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Van Schoick, R(obert) W(illiam), 1843- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Eaton & Mains
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he waters to which we Americans had been accustomed.9 130 THE BOOK AND THE LAND We did not need to tax our imaginations toconfirm the Bible statement that thesewaters were sweetened unto this day.Not in any other place in Palestine have wefound such water. It is an ample stream,furnishing water to run the mill a little wayfrom the fountain, and enough left to slakethe thirst of the thousands who visit it.Near it are remains of the old walls of Jeri-cho, and beyond is the Mount of Tempta-tion, where our Lord was tempted of thedevil forty days. It seemed so near! wecould see the caves in its sides and lookup into the sky which the exceedingly highmountain seemed to touch. After dinner we drove to the Dead Seaand then returned to the Jordan on the wayto our hotel. The heat was almost in-tolerable; the mercury would easily haveregistered 150 degrees. All the approachesto the Dead Sea and the sea itself indi-cated to every visitor that this must bethe site of those doomed cities, Sodom and
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JERUSALEM, JERICHO, ETC. 133 Gomorrah. I tasted the waters of the sea,and washed my hands, but did not care toswim in it—a temptation some of our partycould not resist, even those advanced inyears; but all who did so were salted withsalt and had to undress again for a bathin the Jordan to get rid of the slime withwhich their bodies were covered. The Jordan at the place we visited wasabout seventy-five feet wide and ten feetdeep, having a strong current. Many filledempty bottles with its water to show totheir friends, and others to use for bap-tismal purposes. The guide told us it washere the children of Israel crossed intoPalestine; here Elijah and Elisha crossedover before the formers ascension in achariot of fire, and the latter recrossed afterseeing his chief pass into heaven. Theguide also said it was here that John theBaptist officiated at the baptism of mul-titudes, but evidently such could not havebeen the case. - 134 THE BOOK AND THE LAND Across the Jordan was the land of Mo

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