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Title: Holy Land, with glimpes of Europe and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Phelps, S(ylvanus) D(ryden), 1816-1895. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (8th ed.) New Haven, C. C. Chatfield & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rdering the vale of the Jordan. About two mileson our left is a white wely on a hill-top. It is the ~NehyMusa of the Mohammedans. The real tomb of Mosesis among those mountains yonder, east of the Jordan, in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor; but no man knoweth his sepulchre. About an hour before reaching the Dead Sea, we des-cend the steep hills to the barren plain. Here ourguard professed to be somewhat alarmed, or wished usto be, and declared that they saw Arab robbers lurk-ing about our path. But we saw none, and I pre-sume it was only a ruse on their part, to magnify theirimportance and increase their claim to hucksheesh.Over the light-brown, parched and crusty plain, withscarcely any vestige of vegetation, we are approachingthe northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. We reachthe waters edge, and dismount amidst pebbles ofnearly all colors, many being black and pitchy orbituminous, and dead branches of trees, which havecome down the Jordan, and been thrown upon the
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LAKE SCENERY. 281 beach. What a strange place to stand upon—to lookabroad and around from—and to silently meditate!Every spot that the eye rests upon, near and far off, hassome Scripture account or scene connected with it;and what thrilling accounts and tremendous scenes !Lift the curtain of history, and what a succession ofevents come and go—changeful, beautiful, fearful,wonderful, terrible! What eyes have looked uponthe clear waters of this lake, with its bold, bleakshores ! Patriarchs and kings have beheld it. Ourblessed Lord, too, must have seen it from the Mountof Olives and the heights above Jericho. Who does not admire lake scenery—often sobeautiful, charming and romantic? The foreign tour-ist will not soon forget his visits to the emerald-bor-dered lakes of Killarney in Ireland—the sublimeframes in which those Scottish pictured gems, Lomondand Katrine, are set—and the rich beauty and roman-tic grandeur of the Swiss waters nestled among herglorious mountains. Around

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