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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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gh and low tide. This is, and anciently was, the port of Jerusalem ;and yet it is no port at all. If anything of a sea ison, it is impossible to land passengers, who have oftenhad the annoyance of being taken on to Beyrout andback to Port Said and once again to Joppa before theycould be put ashore, or before the mails could be landed.Even in favourable weather vessels have to lie a mileor two from the shore. There is a strip of water infront of the town from 40 to 50 feet wide and from5 to 10 feet deep, surrounded on the sea side by low,partially sunken rocks. It has two entrances, scarcelymore than 10 feet wide—one on the north and theother on the west—and the small, broad boats inwhich the passengers and mails are landed need to bevery carefully steered, even in fine weather, to passsafely in ; and it is a yearly scene of loss of life, forthe least swell makes it difficult and dangerous toenter. 1 Num. xxxiv. 6, 7 ; Joshua i. 4, ix. 1. 2 Joshua xxiii. 4. 3 1 Kings xviii. 43, 44.
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RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS Here we may observe, as one of the lessons of thefirst sight of Emmanuels Land, how thoroughly theIsrael of God were to be a peculiar and separatedpeople, shut off from contact with the idolatrousnations around them. This inaccessible and dano-erousapproach, where often for days at a time no one couldland, was the one way by sea of reaching Jerusalem. Strait5 indeed was the gate by which Sion couldbe approached seaward, and when this was passed insafety, there were forty miles of road, through threemountain passes, a road little better than a goat-track,to be traversed ere the city could be entered. Certainlynever did port and metropolis more strikingly resembleeach other in difficulty of approach both by sea andland. How different from the capital cities of the Gentilepowers, which have been placed wherever it has beenpossible in the most accessible situations, at the estuaries,or on the banks, of wide, navigable rivers, where theycould invite and enjoy interco

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