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Tabor is a beautiful mountain, wholly of limestone, and rising about a thousand feet above the great
Plain of Esdraelon. Among the Arabs it bears only the general name of Jebel-el-Tur. It stands out
alone towards the S.E. from the high land around Nazareth, while the north-eastern arm of the Plain
sweeps round its base, and extending far to the North, forms a broad table-land, bordering on the Valley
of the Jordan and the Lake of Tiberias. Seen from the S.W. it has the appearance of the segment of
a sphere, but from the W.N.W. that of a truncated cone. The summit is a little oblong plain or basin.1
" The present view," observes the Artist, " was taken while crossing the Plain, on the road from
Jenin to Nazareth. It is the very opposite to the ruggedness and grandeur given to its form in the
Sketches which I had hitherto seen. Though a fine hill, it has long lost all claims to the picturesque ;
the labours of the ancient population having cleared and shaped it into its present form. In many
instances this process may be still traced by the terraces remaining on the sides, though often, by time,
undistinguishable in colour from the rocks on which they are raised. The general character of the hills
of Palestine is roundness, arising from the same cause."2
The figures in the foreground are a caravan of Christian pilgrims, whom the Artist found resting
during the mid-day, on their return from Damascus to Jerusalem.
1 Biblical Researches, iii. 211, &c. " Roberts's Journal.
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Tabor is a beautiful mountain, wholly of limestone, and rising about a thousand feet above the great
Plain of Esdraelon. Among the Arabs it bears only the general name of Jebel-el-Tur. It stands out
alone towards the S.E. from the high land around Nazareth, while the north-eastern arm of the Plain
sweeps round its base, and extending far to the North, forms a broad table-land, bordering on the Valley
of the Jordan and the Lake of Tiberias. Seen from the S.W. it has the appearance of the segment of
a sphere, but from the W.N.W. that of a truncated cone. The summit is a little oblong plain or basin.1
" The present view," observes the Artist, " was taken while crossing the Plain, on the road from
Jenin to Nazareth. It is the very opposite to the ruggedness and grandeur given to its form in the
Sketches which I had hitherto seen. Though a fine hill, it has long lost all claims to the picturesque ;
the labours of the ancient population having cleared and shaped it into its present form. In many
instances this process may be still traced by the terraces remaining on the sides, though often, by time,
undistinguishable in colour from the rocks on which they are raised. The general character of the hills
of Palestine is roundness, arising from the same cause."2
The figures in the foreground are a caravan of Christian pilgrims, whom the Artist found resting
during the mid-day, on their return from Damascus to Jerusalem.
1 Biblical Researches, iii. 211, &c. " Roberts's Journal.