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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
every direction clothes the fields with beauty. The
gigantic piles of limestone are full of great seams
and caverns, where rivers of water are stored up
from the melting snow and ice, and which pour
forth a gradual but never-failing supply during
those months when the earth is parched and all
the surface moisture is dried up. In Deut. viii. 7
there is a passage which describes this interesting
Showing the eastern portal, which faced Mount Hermon, exactly opposite the valley
of Shib'a.
fact. The goodly land into which God is to bring His
people is said to be " a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and internal reservoirs pouring forth in the
valley and in the mountain." Were it not for this
wonderful provision of Nature, a large part of Palestine
that is now fertile would become as barren as the deserts
of Arabia. Not only to-day, but in Bible times as well, have these mountains served as the
ice-houses for Damascus and the cities on the sea-coast. Solomon represents that even the
every direction clothes the fields with beauty. The
gigantic piles of limestone are full of great seams
and caverns, where rivers of water are stored up
from the melting snow and ice, and which pour
forth a gradual but never-failing supply during
those months when the earth is parched and all
the surface moisture is dried up. In Deut. viii. 7
there is a passage which describes this interesting
Showing the eastern portal, which faced Mount Hermon, exactly opposite the valley
of Shib'a.
fact. The goodly land into which God is to bring His
people is said to be " a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and internal reservoirs pouring forth in the
valley and in the mountain." Were it not for this
wonderful provision of Nature, a large part of Palestine
that is now fertile would become as barren as the deserts
of Arabia. Not only to-day, but in Bible times as well, have these mountains served as the
ice-houses for Damascus and the cities on the sea-coast. Solomon represents that even the