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ABRAHAM'S OAK. HEBRON.
An ilex or evergreen holm oak (quercits pseudo-cocci/era). One of the lower branches was broken down by a heavy fall of snow in the winter of
1850. It was cut up into logs and conveyed to Jerusalem ; there were seven camel-loads ; one log was sent to England.
THE SOUTHERN BORDERLAND AND DEAD SEA.
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r I ^HERE is no pleasanter place for an encampment in Southern Palestine than in the valley
which leads to Hebron, the Wady Tuffah, especially during the vintage season, and in
the vicinity of the traditional oak of Abraham (see page 192). This giant tree, which
measures thirty-two feet in circumference, and whose leafy crown is supported by four main
branches fifty feet in length, is reverenced as the direct surviving representative of the oaks
(erroneously rendered " Plain ") of Mamre beneath which the patriarch was encamped when he
entertained his angelic visitors and received the news of the future birth of Isaac, the son of
promise. The oak rears its head amongst the vineyards north-west of Hebron, and is
surrounded by a stone wall, built by the Russians, to whom the field in which it stands belongs.
It is known as Ballutet Sebta, or the " Oak of Rest," and it is supposed to be about two
hundred years old. Tradition has at different times shown the world-famed tree at various
An ilex or evergreen holm oak (quercits pseudo-cocci/era). One of the lower branches was broken down by a heavy fall of snow in the winter of
1850. It was cut up into logs and conveyed to Jerusalem ; there were seven camel-loads ; one log was sent to England.
THE SOUTHERN BORDERLAND AND DEAD SEA.
--♦--
r I ^HERE is no pleasanter place for an encampment in Southern Palestine than in the valley
which leads to Hebron, the Wady Tuffah, especially during the vintage season, and in
the vicinity of the traditional oak of Abraham (see page 192). This giant tree, which
measures thirty-two feet in circumference, and whose leafy crown is supported by four main
branches fifty feet in length, is reverenced as the direct surviving representative of the oaks
(erroneously rendered " Plain ") of Mamre beneath which the patriarch was encamped when he
entertained his angelic visitors and received the news of the future birth of Isaac, the son of
promise. The oak rears its head amongst the vineyards north-west of Hebron, and is
surrounded by a stone wall, built by the Russians, to whom the field in which it stands belongs.
It is known as Ballutet Sebta, or the " Oak of Rest," and it is supposed to be about two
hundred years old. Tradition has at different times shown the world-famed tree at various