The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-02-10
Noun 4 Hoisgah.
From the Independent.

1t will remembered that in January. 1874
our Palestine Exploration Society publish.
ed an identification of Mount Pisgahn
written in 1873 by the arch30logist of ia
first expedition. Prof. j. A. Paine. In ths
the Arabic name Jebel Siaghah was tirStrp.
cogniZed as a relic of the biblical name
PiSgah, and the mount was defined as the
most western and prominent head of the
range, while a lOftier one further back east
ward was found to bear the name of Jebel
Neba, the Mount Nebo of the Bible. The
view from this elevation was described
o-thirds the surface of the Dead Sea.
less what might be concealed under the
eastern bluffs-namely from the southern
hill of Masada, on the western shore.
up to the northern end of the sea, "
ing directly west of the mount of OBSERVE
ton: also the entire eastern side of Western
Palestine, from the South country, or Ne
geb, to the region OF Sated III the North,
excluding, however, Mount HOr in the
South, the sea on the West, and Mount Her.
mon in the North, said by DR.. Trisfram to
be visible. though his point of view was
neighbOring height, less commanding.
IN his DISQUALIFICATION" Professor Paine
mentioned that the explorer who first stood
on Nebo was the Due de Luynes, in the
year 1864, relying chiefly on the fact that
the latter called the mountain Jebel Muss,
or Moses Mount, on his chart; adding also
that this would appear, no doubt, from the
letter-press of his pOsthumOuS work. Now,
after so many years, that pOSthumOuS work
has appeared-" Voyage d Exploration a 10
Mer Morte." To this we turn, therefore,
with much interest, to see if il will afford
US any confederation on the view, which
has been described by later explorer as poor
and disappointing. Standing on the point
supposed by Prof. Paine to be the height Of
Poor, the Due de Luynes proceeds to the
last one In the range projected furthest to-
ward the enthusiastically, Jebel Stag
HAHN the following words:
"Observing that second height OF this
mountain seemed more elevated and tOglye
perspective of greater extent over the
Dead Sea and the Holy Land, we projected
thither. In spite of the hazy state OF tOe
horizon, we aScertaned that from this ele-
walton one discerned the North and the
Northwest shore of the Dead Sea from inc
mouth OF the Jordan as far as nearly TO Je0'
ell Esdoum and to Jebel Sataa, the whole
mountain chain from Hebron to the Qnaran-
| tana Mount, all the land from The mountain
of Hesban, of Jebel Osha, and of es-oalt
even into the GhOr, to the mountains Ol
Naplous, of Jenin, and of Nazareth, Mount
Tabor part of its plain and even BanlaS
as our guides assured us; only they SaIu
| that one could not see the snow OF hermOh'
| even in the purest atmosphere. Inc PEI.
| spective of that elevated spot was WlthUu'
| limits and it's effect of the utmost ma]esN'
| 1t is understood that tradition causes MosI'
to be conducted to this place by Jeh0's55'
| in order to show him all the PROMISED Lanu.
| The view from this second height does NV Nv
| reach as far as the place where Segor Is Az
mitted to be, the refuge of Lot, whether SIT W.
| uated at Wady es-Safieh, or supposed " ~
| in Wady Eddraa. nh
1--WE were then on the summit ei TisS@nI
among the heights of Mount Nebo, anu naI ~
| the chain called Abrarim; we were OenO,ad
| ing the same spectacle that Jehovah Spih'jT
before Moses, after having prohiol,eeoo no no
| from crossing the Jordan. Up. IoV- .,rId
The Palestine Exploration Society Gor
| ask Tor no fuller confirmation OF lCo va"
BY Jebel Esdoum the Due de Luy mes T linn
what DIR. Edward Robinson writes Usu a If
and considers a traditional reminlsceacSS .i,
| SodOln, often called the Mountain Vi mad
| off the Southeastern portion OF tnr iT All
| Sea thus exactly corrObOratlng the NJ Waunr
vision given in the "Identitiation ol .taDt ID
Pisgah," and proving that large EXC sro ~
water-surface lies directly under tne eyT
| the beholder on Jebtl Slaghah' nv bsye
the Due de Luynes proves not ohiy ~ Nebo.
supposed Jebel Musa to be Noun .tr If ths
but to have regarded the extremity oftbs
range on which he stood as the PlSSau .rpaors
Bible. Here is an independent cohc4n, nc ID
of opinion by two observers; Inc - f,n pu' nd
Luynes was the first to look Oh Oh i Il as ths
spot, and in his own mind regard d IL % wal
| Pfseah of Moses view. Prof PaII hoorins
the first to publish the opinion Si1 baon con
stood on the same ground anu was Pis
WINGED by the panorama that TINS - " This 81
gah, and to discover the name OF OF uo erJ
IRENE point--viz.: Siaghan-auu
| ~; t m Of ho word HlSpdt'
"WHERE is your home?" SAID o tfr il.
child in the street. where in;t of d.
was the beautiful reply. The sPifiiU spesT|
answer is benefitting the believer n,e will r.
where Christ is. The place is imm SaSrcs
everlasting blessedness to His His p pnd At r
Thy presence is fullness of JOY, a mu
right hand are pleasures foreveI-.znM
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