Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Scenes in the East: Consisting of Twelve Coloured Photographic Views of Places Mentioned in the Bible, With Descriptive Letter-Press
Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water (j udg. I. As we see the springs gushing forth from the rocky side of the valley, and feel we are no longer in a south land. Here the ruins of the cities of Judah begin to crowd upon us. Almost every hill-top is marked by the group of deserted dwellings - not grass grown, like those we have 'passed, but with walls and narrow streets, and domed interior rooms all entire, exactly what Bethlehem would be were it unroofed and deserted to-morrow. Every name recals some incident in the eventful life of the Bethlehemite - Jattir, Lebaoth, Eshtemoa, Maon, Carmel, Ziph, scarcely altered in the Arabic vernacular from the old Hebrew in the Domesday Book of Joshua. At length, having passed Hebron and Mamre, the rough sides of the valley through which the road winds become more thickly covered with dwarf oak, arbutus, and many a shrub, and we descend to a. Grassy slope and reach the famous Pools of Solomon, the three vast reservoirs which were the main water supply of Hebron, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem. They are at the head of the valley of Etam, now Urtas, down which extended the gardens of Solomon, the patrimony of Jesse, where the wise man recounts, I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
