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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
was buried (see page 253). Above the village there is an artificially levelled oblong space of
considerable extent which is now used as a threshing-floor. It was evidently at one time
encii
ircled by columns ; the shafts of several are still standing on its western side. Perhaps
THE SOUTHERN EXPANSE OF THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON, FROM JENIN.
The whole extent of the plain is now called Merj ibn Amir (the Meadow of the Son of Amir).
this is the " sacred place nearly in the middle of the city," within which, according to Josephus,
" Herod erected a temple which was illustrious on account of its largeness and beauty."
A level terrace about fifty feet in width, embellished with a colonnade, seems at one time
THE PLAIN OF DOTHAN.
From an isolated hill called Tell Dothan, on the south side of the plain.
to have entirely encircled the hill, about half-way from its summit. There are between
fifty and sixty columns without capitals still standing towards the western end of the southern
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
was buried (see page 253). Above the village there is an artificially levelled oblong space of
considerable extent which is now used as a threshing-floor. It was evidently at one time
encii
ircled by columns ; the shafts of several are still standing on its western side. Perhaps
THE SOUTHERN EXPANSE OF THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON, FROM JENIN.
The whole extent of the plain is now called Merj ibn Amir (the Meadow of the Son of Amir).
this is the " sacred place nearly in the middle of the city," within which, according to Josephus,
" Herod erected a temple which was illustrious on account of its largeness and beauty."
A level terrace about fifty feet in width, embellished with a colonnade, seems at one time
THE PLAIN OF DOTHAN.
From an isolated hill called Tell Dothan, on the south side of the plain.
to have entirely encircled the hill, about half-way from its summit. There are between
fifty and sixty columns without capitals still standing towards the western end of the southern