The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-01-17
The Survey of Palestine.

From the London Daily News
One of the most curious features about
the conformation of Palestine is the sys-
tenn Of Water-cOurses. which is more com
pick than In any other country. These
are lai down "con7entionallv'' in all ex
ting maps, / e, they are known to run
down in sort of wild disorder, and are
80 represented We have them here for
the first time correct Here, too, NAV be
re marked the Roman road along which
st Paul travelled in his memorable Jour
ney from Jerusalem. 1T has never vet
been foiinwed up. C"untry again, near
NablOuS (Shechem) supposed to be bar
rem and desOlate. Is shown to be richly
wooded and fertile We could have VI sh
ed the tracings to have been all finished
with the hill ske'chings. &c. The great
end 10 be Gained by the survey is, of
course, the right understanding &C the
! historical portions of the Bible. To un-
derstand history Of any kind N D is in
dispeHsible much more wheH as with
tie BIbia, most Of the eveats recorded
took place in very small country. But
in Palestine there are whole districts
whore the foot of an explorer has never
been st, and it is not too much. to saw
has ia spite ofall the books on Palestine.
il IL less understood than any other his
t"rIcal country. It cannot Moreover be
to strongly borne in mind that ali the
discoveries made by the recent ezgInra~
ti'nS in Palestine and >;iuai do undnHbtpd
ly bear 0ut AMI confirm in Il mtst re-
msTkab!e manHer the Geographical ac-
curacy of the Bible.
One of the most important points in
work IS the identified ION of the ancient
/ sites. This must be Effected, fr-t OF all,
/ by the resemblance ofthc modern names
/ but, this cannot always he relied on.
/ attention must also he paid to tie sur,
/ .uuiiu@ names and the features Of he
( country thus IL aupesr- from the IA
/ per- "i the Geogrl phI..ii society thar
/ when Cape Warren was ia Pin I.ta he
/ was "a xi.us t. il nifty the site f the
/ Cave Of MakkrIah lie fnand four vii,
/ la.rs near each other whose names sug-
geSted tire iour among which the name of
Makkedah occurs in the Book of Joshua
! Thus Joshua gives GederOrh. Bethdag N.
/ MAMMAL and Marked n th,. undoubt.
/ ed arighborhond ol tn places CAPTAIN
! = ARE tound Kuirah i3rlt.9eian, Mann
ham (ca.ied by Mr. Drake N,anch) and
| Il! Mughur, which. last means THE cave "
May NOT this IA AXIS, be the cave OF
/ Marked Ia? The t-nacitv OF the ancient
/ names 70 the stii is ore OF the III : cur
rious things about Parsrine sHu, Mr.
Iyrwhilt Drake, in sa:H- cases canfrmin
previ ,us tr,. veicss, iirnjl lies tae ii town.
eff Hadi1. Jahu3, Rcnrberak and GezrI
wiih the modern uarIes of sla3uhe', +
GeuuGI.eb, lin lbrak and Tell ,Jezar
/ Ruins are ey~ry where Di eu the only
vrsuges II an old town left are the tank,
and ci~tpruS cur In be rock b. It's former
Inhabitants; eyerv ser . Of -toue p .iu:
taken away by hcrr Successors
10 quote frum IDferestsn1 pannr by
Mr.. Drake: May per-Qus would doubt
less smile in pit were f~to show t.m ;
hiil-top now occupied by rude wall ep
closing few IL lrees and rock ,hewr
cistern 0I wgll, and say, Here is the sit
Of considerable town. Most of tn
ruins are at the present day invisible t.
the unpracticed eve, but my be trace
by the wells. nks and caves heUn il
the rock-rhe latter still inhibited lay
race Of Trogiod ties, half agricultural
half pasrOra b, iig trees and an oily
grove, or a few patriarchal trees split b
ages iGro two ~ three distinct trunk.
gray and gHaried relics Of former pros
%. TitF The eve will detect carefully
squared -to es In the loosely piled wall 81
she garden or sheepfo.d, and quiry vii
teach the traveller thai eyeryvh, re be
meath the soil, where Vegetation assume
d deeper green. covering perhaps two @
three acres, squared stones will be foun,
tricky strewn. In another place fe,
caps nF stones, TIE universal well, aud
few foundations may BE traced abov
ground IMPORTANT rs these ruins nos
seem, chance Wiil oucHsiona ~ throw
clean, Of light o. one, an analogy lead
20 a lrue value heinz put OF other