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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
4l" I ''
foundations. The hovels
of the squalid village
are formed of loose
stones from old build-
ings and turf. But the
view towards the east
is wide and impressive.
We are surrounded by
the hills of Benjamin,
each in shape and in
the crumbling mound
on its top a repetition
of the last. In the immediate foreground we see the little village of
Deir Diwan, one of the few remaining inhabited places in the district
on its plateau, and beyond this slopes down tier after tier of the
mountain chain, seamed and scarred in every direction, till it dips into
the Jordan Valley. The huge thistles which fill the foreground of the
sketch, in front of the Moslem burying-ground, where a family are
THE SUMMIT OF NEBY SAMWIL.
A woman carrying a goat-skin filled with water up the hill.
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
4l" I ''
foundations. The hovels
of the squalid village
are formed of loose
stones from old build-
ings and turf. But the
view towards the east
is wide and impressive.
We are surrounded by
the hills of Benjamin,
each in shape and in
the crumbling mound
on its top a repetition
of the last. In the immediate foreground we see the little village of
Deir Diwan, one of the few remaining inhabited places in the district
on its plateau, and beyond this slopes down tier after tier of the
mountain chain, seamed and scarred in every direction, till it dips into
the Jordan Valley. The huge thistles which fill the foreground of the
sketch, in front of the Moslem burying-ground, where a family are
THE SUMMIT OF NEBY SAMWIL.
A woman carrying a goat-skin filled with water up the hill.