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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
feet above the sea. Many biblical topographists, including Dr. Robinson, have alluded to this
place as the site of Antipatris, but there is nothing to indicate that any city of importance
ever stood here. Its houses are built of sun-dried bricks and small stones, and its square
rain-water tanks are made of clay. There are no springs in or near the village, but about
half a mile to the east of it there are two wells of good water, one of which is at the sanctuary
of Neby Ben Yamin (Benjamin), shown on page 116. Some trees above the average size
SCENE IN A JAFFA GARDEN.
Two women engaged in working a sakiyeh, a clumsy machine for raising water from a well to fill a reservoir. On the branch of pomegranate
there is a chameleon. - *
grow near the shrine, and one of them appears in the foreground of the view of Kefr Saba
(see page 117).
Josephus records that Herod built the city of Antipatris in honour of his father, Antipater,
" on the plain of Caphar Saba, the finest plain in his kingdom," and he especially states that
the city was encompassed by a river. The mound on which stands Kul'at Ras el 'Ain is now
generally regarded as the site of Antipatris. It is five miles and a half due south of Kefr
feet above the sea. Many biblical topographists, including Dr. Robinson, have alluded to this
place as the site of Antipatris, but there is nothing to indicate that any city of importance
ever stood here. Its houses are built of sun-dried bricks and small stones, and its square
rain-water tanks are made of clay. There are no springs in or near the village, but about
half a mile to the east of it there are two wells of good water, one of which is at the sanctuary
of Neby Ben Yamin (Benjamin), shown on page 116. Some trees above the average size
SCENE IN A JAFFA GARDEN.
Two women engaged in working a sakiyeh, a clumsy machine for raising water from a well to fill a reservoir. On the branch of pomegranate
there is a chameleon. - *
grow near the shrine, and one of them appears in the foreground of the view of Kefr Saba
(see page 117).
Josephus records that Herod built the city of Antipatris in honour of his father, Antipater,
" on the plain of Caphar Saba, the finest plain in his kingdom," and he especially states that
the city was encompassed by a river. The mound on which stands Kul'at Ras el 'Ain is now
generally regarded as the site of Antipatris. It is five miles and a half due south of Kefr