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Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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er of Ammon, andflows in a deeply-sunk channel into the Jordan, forming in ancienttimes the boundary between the territories of Sihon and Og, thetwo kings of the Amorites, and afterwards between Gad andManasseh—and the Amon, Mojih, which separated at one time thekingdoms of the Moabites and Amorites, and afterwards formed tliesouthern limit of Palestine in this part; it is a stream of no greatsize, discharging itself into the Dead Sea through a deep cleft. This district was occupied by the tribes of Eeuben and Gad, andpartly by the half-tribe of Manasseh. The precise limits of theirvarious districts cannot be very well defined ; for these tribes led apastoral, nomadic life, shifting their quarters from time to time, andintermixing probably with each other, and with the older inhabit-ants of the district: their positions may be generally described asfollows :—Eeuben to the S. from the Arnon to the head of theDead Sea : Gad, thence to the Jabbok : and half-Manasseh, X. ofthe Jabbok.
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Gadara. (From a Sketch by Wm. Tipping, Esq.) Chap. XI. TOAVXS. 201 The towns in Persea were neither numerous nor important. Heshbonranked as the capital of Sihon, one of the kings of the Amorites. Itstood E. of the head of the Dead Sea, on a slight elevation above therest of the plateau; it is now an entire ruin. The remains of areservoir may represent ^^the fishpools in Heshbon wliich Solomonnotices (Cant. vii. 4). Jazer, where Sihon was defeated, was some-where to the S.; and in the same direction was Baal-meon, -thehabitation of Baal, with a high peak near it, whence perhaps Balaamviewed the people of Israel. This may also have been the heightwhence Moses viewed the promised land. Eabbath-Ammon, the capitalof the Ammonites, stood on both sides of a small stream tributary tothe Jabbok, and is hence described as the city of the two waters, incontradistinction to the citadel, which stood high up on an isolatedhill: it was known as PMIadelpMa in the Roman era, having beenrebuilt by Pto

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