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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
The prospect from the mountain-top—a huge naked block of strangely shaped syenitic granite on
which is built a chapel
dedicated to the saint—
discloses three-fourths
of the peninsula: from
Hammam Far'un on the
north-west to Wadv el
'Ain on the north-east
—from Jebel Musa to
the glimmering waters
of the twin gulfs, and
the hills of Arabia and
Africa on either hand
beyond. Serbal is seen
in all its grandeur ;
U mm Shomer and Zebi'r
break the view south-
wards ; and, though
Ras Mohammad is in-
visible, the two arms of
the Red Sea are almost
seen at the point of
separation. Wonderful
are the effects of the
colouring-! Delicate are
the gradations of light
and shade! Intense
is the silence ! — The
warmer tints are even
now deepening; the
shadows are lengthen-
ing ; as the sunlight
fades speechlessly out
of these mountains
where God spake with
man, and proclaimed
the Law which is more
everlasting than the
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
The prospect from the mountain-top—a huge naked block of strangely shaped syenitic granite on
which is built a chapel
dedicated to the saint—
discloses three-fourths
of the peninsula: from
Hammam Far'un on the
north-west to Wadv el
'Ain on the north-east
—from Jebel Musa to
the glimmering waters
of the twin gulfs, and
the hills of Arabia and
Africa on either hand
beyond. Serbal is seen
in all its grandeur ;
U mm Shomer and Zebi'r
break the view south-
wards ; and, though
Ras Mohammad is in-
visible, the two arms of
the Red Sea are almost
seen at the point of
separation. Wonderful
are the effects of the
colouring-! Delicate are
the gradations of light
and shade! Intense
is the silence ! — The
warmer tints are even
now deepening; the
shadows are lengthen-
ing ; as the sunlight
fades speechlessly out
of these mountains
where God spake with
man, and proclaimed
the Law which is more
everlasting than the