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Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e time of ourSavior. It afterwards fell into great neglect, but was atlength restored by one of the Mahometan governers of Jeru-salem, and made to do duty again. Its course can be tracednearly all the way, and very interesting explorations havebeen made of late years, to discover where it entered the cityand how the water was distributed for the purposes of generalsupply. But of Solomons fine roads which he constructedin the neighborhood of Jerusalem, no traces remain. Theluxuriance of Wady Urtas tells the story faintly of the gar-dens in which he once delighted, and whose fragrance fillsthe song which bears Solomons name; but his drivewayshave all been allowed to pass into then- old roughness. Hadthe neighborhood of Jerusalem been less intractable than itis, the works which he laid out beyond the walls of his capitalwould have been more extensive than they were ; for no cityof note exists in the world, I suppose, vhose immediateneighborhood offers less inducement to the gardener than
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19 I 310 NEW FORTIFICATIONS. does that of Jerusalem. Only the resources of Solomoncould have affected anything in such a tangled mass of rocks.Yet that he had his driveways and his gardens is plain, but wefind little now which bears the marks of his hand. Besides these works of art he was busily engaged in com-pleting strong fortifications, erected at just the points where hewas most assailable. One of these was Hazor, a place whichlong ago claimed our attention in connection with Joshua,and which was the head-quarters of two armies which underthe command of two kings, both bearing the family name ofJabin, resisted the arms of Israel. Lying as it unquestionablydid at the sources of the Jordan, and beneath the snow crestof the mighty Hermon, it was the strategic point Avhich mustbe taken by an army coming from Damascus and the countryadjacent. All such armies must pass the southern limit ofLebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges, and hence the refortifica-tion of Hazor. One was Tadmor, a place

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