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Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eld out a tin can tied to the stump ofher wrist from which the hand had dropped off. The garden goes up the side of the mountain. It is almost square and does not cover two acres. It is cut up into flower beds bordered by inverted beer and winebottles. There are eight old olive trees, pansies of all shades of the rainbow, and many beautiful flowers, as well as dark cypress trees. The garden belongs to the Franciscan monks who opened the gate at our knock. The gate is a mere hole in the wall, so low that all who enter must stoop. It is closed by an iron door, 127 THE HOLY LAND AND SYRIA with a round black bar of iron, ten inches long, as a knocker. Just back of the entrance to the garden is a ledge of limestone where the disciples are said to have slept during the night of the agony, and perhaps one hundred feet farther away stands a column which tradition says marks the spot where Judas betrayed Christ with a kiss. Both of these places have been worn smooth by the lips of thousands of pilgrims. 128
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The source of the Jordan at Banias is one of the largest springs in the world. The Jordan is rightly named the down-comer, for in its winding course of two hundred and forty miles it drops from the mountains to the Dead Sea, nearly thirteen hundred feet below sea-level

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