This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...the Ghor. In one place the stream suddenly disappeared, and then after some fifteen minutes broke out again larger than before. The rocky sides of the valley gradually became lower and grassy; and the Wady becomes in this part a deep channel through the rich, elevated, and cultivated plain above. Our path now left the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...the Ghor. In one place the stream suddenly disappeared, and then after some fifteen minutes broke out again larger than before. The rocky sides of the valley gradually became lower and grassy; and the Wady becomes in this part a deep channel through the rich, elevated, and cultivated plain above. Our path now left the main channel, and led across the plain to a side Wady coming down from the northwest under Burj elFiui'a, and soon joining the main branch. This valley had also a fine stream, and a. mill just below the Burj. This we reached at 10 o'clock, and stopped for lunch under the shade of the mill. Here were immense deposits from the water on the rocks, showing that a mill had probably stood here for ages. Nowhere in Palestine, not even at Nabulus, had I seen such noble brooks of water. The Burj itself is an insignificant square tower, on a small Tell a few rods north, where a dry side Wady comes in ' See Geseu. Thesaur. Linguae Heb. et copies from Brocardus; Reissb. p. 127. from the northeast. It has no importance except as a landmark.' The day was warm; the sun poured his beams fiercely upon the broad basin; and notwithstanding the presence of water, we found our resting place sufficiently uncomfortable. This tract of the Fari'a, iiom el-Kfirawa in the Ghor to the rounded hills which separate it from the plain of Sanur, is justly regarded as one of the most fertile and valuable regions of Palestine. In 1844, my companion had passed up through it from the Ghor to Sannr; and found it in April every where full of the most luxuriant pasturage, where not covered with fields of grain. Yet, like the great plain of Esdraelon, it is without villages; and is mostly given up to the nomadic Arabs of the Mas'udy. Further down t...
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