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running on either side just below the roof. Days might be spent in exploring the caverns of
subterranean Beit Jibrin. Everywhere
the hills are honeycombed, and the
ground rings hollow as we walk.
Instead of taking the direct road
from Beit Jibrin (see page 180) to
Hebron (see page 196), on which there
are not many historical sites of note, we
may make a detour northwards, and in a
long day's ride visit Wady es Sur, the
upper portion of the Vale of Elah, the the church of st. anne, beit jibrin.
Called by the Arabs El Keniseh ; it stands one thousand and seventy-two feet
recently recovered Cave Of Adullam (Ed above thesea, opposite to Tell Sandannah (Santa Hanna?). It was originally
v a Byzantine church, but was restored by the Crusaders.
el Miye), and Keilah. Wherever we
wander we shall find ruins in abundance. So frequent are the proofs of a former dense
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running on either side just below the roof. Days might be spent in exploring the caverns of
subterranean Beit Jibrin. Everywhere
the hills are honeycombed, and the
ground rings hollow as we walk.
Instead of taking the direct road
from Beit Jibrin (see page 180) to
Hebron (see page 196), on which there
are not many historical sites of note, we
may make a detour northwards, and in a
long day's ride visit Wady es Sur, the
upper portion of the Vale of Elah, the the church of st. anne, beit jibrin.
Called by the Arabs El Keniseh ; it stands one thousand and seventy-two feet
recently recovered Cave Of Adullam (Ed above thesea, opposite to Tell Sandannah (Santa Hanna?). It was originally
v a Byzantine church, but was restored by the Crusaders.
el Miye), and Keilah. Wherever we
wander we shall find ruins in abundance. So frequent are the proofs of a former dense
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