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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
cannot boast. This place, although now so humble and forbidding, is known throughout
Christendom as the home of Mary Magdalene ; and wherever the New Testament is read
poor Magdala will be mentioned when many places of note and power are quite forgotten.
The ride along the sea to Tiberias is a pleasant one, and occupies about one hour. If
the weather is favourable for boats, a white sail may occasionally be seen far out on the lake,
MAGDALA (MEJDEL).
Beyond the village is the fertile plain of Gennesaret. It is three miles long and one mile in width.
for the traditional " one boat" has increased to half-a-dozen or more (see page 309). Still
the number is very limited, there being no business to support them. These boats are built
in Beirut, or some of the coast towns, and transported in sections to Tiberias, and there
put together. They are made for carrying burdens, but when there is a good breeze
considerable speed is obtained. If, however, those who manage them have to depend upon
oars, their progress is aggravatingly slow. But in Christ's time the sea was covered with
ships and boats engaged either in fishing or traffic, or carrying parties of travellers or of
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
cannot boast. This place, although now so humble and forbidding, is known throughout
Christendom as the home of Mary Magdalene ; and wherever the New Testament is read
poor Magdala will be mentioned when many places of note and power are quite forgotten.
The ride along the sea to Tiberias is a pleasant one, and occupies about one hour. If
the weather is favourable for boats, a white sail may occasionally be seen far out on the lake,
MAGDALA (MEJDEL).
Beyond the village is the fertile plain of Gennesaret. It is three miles long and one mile in width.
for the traditional " one boat" has increased to half-a-dozen or more (see page 309). Still
the number is very limited, there being no business to support them. These boats are built
in Beirut, or some of the coast towns, and transported in sections to Tiberias, and there
put together. They are made for carrying burdens, but when there is a good breeze
considerable speed is obtained. If, however, those who manage them have to depend upon
oars, their progress is aggravatingly slow. But in Christ's time the sea was covered with
ships and boats engaged either in fishing or traffic, or carrying parties of travellers or of