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200 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,
are in a small hamlet, nearly at the bottom of the hill, in the
plain of Esdraelon, called Debora. The place of transfigu-
ration of our Saviour, according to the authority of St. Je-
rome, was pointed out to me in my ascent.
I was amply repaid for my labour by the scene presented
to me from the summit of the mountain ; this is flat, includes
a plain of about a mile and a half in circumference, where
much of the walls and towers built by Josephus still remain
in massy ruin *.
The extraordinary shape of Mount Tabor is best observed
from its summit, whence it appears quite isolated from the
rest of the country, like a truncated cone, of a considerable
height above the neighbouring mountains. These are laid
down by Pococke thus : those of Engedda and Samaria to
the south; to the north-east Mount Hermon, beneath which
lay Nam and Endor. To the north are the mountains of
Gilboah, so fatal to Saul, and of the Beatitudes, where our
Saviour's sermon was delivered to the multitude, and near
which the multitude were miraculously fed. The sea of Ti-
berias is clearly discovered towards the north-east, terminated
by Mount Hermon, covered with perpetual snow. Mount
Carmel is to the south-west, and conceals the Mediterranean
from view.
* See chapter vi. book iv. Wars of the Jews.
are in a small hamlet, nearly at the bottom of the hill, in the
plain of Esdraelon, called Debora. The place of transfigu-
ration of our Saviour, according to the authority of St. Je-
rome, was pointed out to me in my ascent.
I was amply repaid for my labour by the scene presented
to me from the summit of the mountain ; this is flat, includes
a plain of about a mile and a half in circumference, where
much of the walls and towers built by Josephus still remain
in massy ruin *.
The extraordinary shape of Mount Tabor is best observed
from its summit, whence it appears quite isolated from the
rest of the country, like a truncated cone, of a considerable
height above the neighbouring mountains. These are laid
down by Pococke thus : those of Engedda and Samaria to
the south; to the north-east Mount Hermon, beneath which
lay Nam and Endor. To the north are the mountains of
Gilboah, so fatal to Saul, and of the Beatitudes, where our
Saviour's sermon was delivered to the multitude, and near
which the multitude were miraculously fed. The sea of Ti-
berias is clearly discovered towards the north-east, terminated
by Mount Hermon, covered with perpetual snow. Mount
Carmel is to the south-west, and conceals the Mediterranean
from view.
* See chapter vi. book iv. Wars of the Jews.