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MARITIME CITIES OF PALESTINE. 133
cutting," for it is an artificial outlet for springs which rise in the great marsh east of the
sandstone ridge. The course of the stream is marked by tall flowering reeds (Syrian papyri),
which in the distance look like miniature palm-trees, and it is bordered by thickets of oleanders,
VIEW OF THE ROCK-ENCIRCLED HARBOUR AT JAFFA,
From the roof of the house of Simon the Tanner. The building in the foreground, with its domes and perforated parapets, is a characteristic
example of native domestic architecture in towns and cities of Southern Palestine.
lupins, and St. John's wort. Mounds of ruins near to the river prove that there was at one
time an important fortress here. After crossing the stream we traverse an undulating sandy
plain, quite uninhabited, uncultivated, treeless, and waterless, and with scarcely a sign of a
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cutting," for it is an artificial outlet for springs which rise in the great marsh east of the
sandstone ridge. The course of the stream is marked by tall flowering reeds (Syrian papyri),
which in the distance look like miniature palm-trees, and it is bordered by thickets of oleanders,
VIEW OF THE ROCK-ENCIRCLED HARBOUR AT JAFFA,
From the roof of the house of Simon the Tanner. The building in the foreground, with its domes and perforated parapets, is a characteristic
example of native domestic architecture in towns and cities of Southern Palestine.
lupins, and St. John's wort. Mounds of ruins near to the river prove that there was at one
time an important fortress here. After crossing the stream we traverse an undulating sandy
plain, quite uninhabited, uncultivated, treeless, and waterless, and with scarcely a sign of a
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