"From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears - including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful (14782083724)

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Title: "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land ...
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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towers and minaretsof Zidon, surrounded with the most luxuriant gardens in theworld. In the intervening distance sections of the old Romanroad can stiU be traced, and along the highway are severalmilestones. On one are inscribed the names of Septimius Sev-erus and his son, M. Aurelius Antoninus, better known in his-tory as Caracalla. The inscription bears the date of 198 A.D.Entering the famous gardens of the modern Saida, we rode foran hour through lengthened avenues of acacias and tamarisks,and amid mulberry groves, and vast orchards of jjeaches, pears,apricots, plums, quinces, oranges, lemons, bananas, and citrous,which filled the air with a delightful fragrance, and presentedto the eye a variety of finely-tinted and exquisite foliage. In-terspersed through these beautiful groves are country seatspossessing all the charms of an earthly paradise. Our ruraljDath terminated at the very gate of the city, which was care- 1 Kings, xvii. - Mark, vii., 2t-30. -^^^i?;;o^4r.^iif l^l*; ::«^
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ft*. FROir DAK TO BEEKSHEBA. 457 fully gufivcled by Turkish soldiers. Entering the town, wcfound it situated on a small promontory projecting obliquelyinto the sea. Thoroughly Oriental in character and appear-ance, its narrow, shaded streets and groups of trees give it anair of repose. While many of its buiMirfgs are small, like thosein most Syrian towns, there are several large and costly. Thepopulation is not less than 10,000, and is composed of Moslems,Maronites, Greeks, and Jews. The chief vocations of the citi-zens are the cultivation of fruits and the manufacture of oil andsilk, which are exported into Egypt and to ports along the Med-iterranean. With an antiquity anterior to authentic history, Sidon isamong the oldest of known cities. Mentioned by the inspiredhistorian in connection with Sodom and Gaza,i it is supposedit was founded by Sidon, the grandson of ISToah.^ Increasingin wealth and power, the city had achieved such fame at thetime the Hebrews entered Canaan that it is