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Title: A dictionary of religious knowledge (electronic resource): for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922 Conant, Thomas Jefferson, 1802-1891
Subjects: Theology Religion
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Pitts Theology Library

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emotest springs ofHasbeiya, on the north-west side of Her-eon, and accompanies it to the lower endof the Dead Sea, a length of about 150miles. During the whole of this distanceits course is very winding, though its gen-eral direction is nearly due north and south.The springs of Hasbeiya are 1700 feet abovethe level of the Mediterranean, and the northern end of the Dead Sea is 1317 feetbelow it, so that between these two pointsthe valley falls with more or less regulari-ty through a height of more than 3000 feet.In width the valley varies. In its upperand shallower portion, as between Baniasand Lake Meroni (Huleh), it is about fivemiles across. Between Lake Merom andthe Sea of Galilee it contracts, and becomesmore of an ordinary ravine or glen. It is inits third and lower portion that the valleyassumes its more definite and regular char-acter. During the greater part of this por-tion, it is about seven miles wide from theone wall to the other. The eastern moumt- PALESTINE 708 PALESTINE
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Uast «£ Greenwich Map of Palestine in the Time of Christ. PALESTINE 709 PALESTINE ains preserve their straight line of direction,and their massive horizontal wall-like aspect,during almost the whole distance. The west-ern mountains are more irregular in height,their slopes less vertical. North of Jerichothey recede in a kind of wide amphitheatre,and the valley becomes twelve miles broad a breadth which it thenceforward retains to the southern extremity of the Dead Sea.Buried as it is between such lofty ranges,and shielded from every breeze, the climateof the Jordan Valley is extremely hot andrelaxing. Its enervating influence is shownin the inhabitants of Jericho, who are to thisday prone to the vices which brought de-struction upon the people of Sodom and Go-morrah. II. The Hill Country.—West of the JordanValley the land rises by an ascent in thesouth even precipitous, to an elevated rangeof hills. This central hill country, intersect-ed by broad lowland plains, preserves fromnor

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