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Title: The Jordan valley and Petra
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Libbey, William, 1855- Hoskins, Franklin Evans, joint author
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Publisher: New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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a well called Bir Mlih (see photograph),one of the last drinking-places on this frightfulroad. While we rested here, Milhem followed alarge flock of wild pigeons and brought down threeat one shot. From this unclean well the roadswings round to the southwest, and is easily fol-lowed for an hour or more. It goes round manysmall valleys, but not into them, and presents aseries of superb views of the Ahsa valley and DeadSea. Two hours from the well we had dropped tonineteen hundred and fifty feet, and at this pointthe limestone formation ended, and we entered thesandstone again. The remaining three thousandfeet of the descent the road is simply frightful. During the next hour we dropped from nineteenhundred and fifty feet to eleven hundred and fiftyfeet, and reached the nook in the ravine called elAbrash. Here we decided to pitch for the night, itbeing now four p.m. Palm trees once grew in thisregion, and gave it the name of en-Nakhaly, butnearly all of them have now died out. We noticed
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27.s RiR Mlih, on the Road from Tafileh to the Ghor Petra to the Dead Sea 277 a few stunted ones among the high rocks aboutus. Our first effort was to find water, and in thissearch the people who joined our caravan served uswell. Relieving the animals of their loads, theyroamed among the rocky ravines, and after a quar-ter of an hour they called out: We have foundwater ! We have found water ! We visited thespot and saw a dirty, foul-looking pool of rain-water,from which foxes, birds, and perhaps other wild ani-mals had drank, and where they had bathed. Incolor it resembled dirty vinegar, and contained allmanner of living creatures, visible and no doubtinvisible. But there was nothing else within manymiles, and we proceeded to make use of it for allcamp purposes. After the first boiling it lookedlike milk and had a very decided smell. We boiledit aeain, and while it was a little clearer it was notany more palatable. This camp marked the be-ginning of our pangs of thirst, which distress

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