Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-02-05
ga HAND SAW Is A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO
SHAVE WITH"
Sal Pol 10 /
W. THE PROPER THING FOR HoUsEcLEANINasss

bounded on the north by Syria, on the
east by the great Arabian desert and
on the south by the mountains of
Edom"
Palestine proper is. about 1sJ miles in
length on the north 1t scarcely ex-
, ceeds twenty miles in width; ON the
south 1t Is seventy-five or eighty miles
wide. In form and dimensions it very
closely compares with the state OF
New Hampshire.
But the Lord frequently assured that
the land of promise should extend from
the Mediterranean to the Euphrates
Gen. Is: Is; Elk. 90: 81; Deut IL: 2D.
This is explained to refer to the utmost
expansion of the kingdom OF Israel.
which it actually attained under Da-
vid and Solomon.
The territory of the Canaanites was
| In the shape of u triangle, having It's
| apex at Sidon, and the lire or the
Mediterranean to GAIA and Gerar Che
| southern extremity of Philistial FOR
! one side from the southeast angle of
the Mediterranean to the southern
limit of the Dead Sea its base, anu
| from this point to Sidon It's other siue'
| Gen. 10: 49,.
| The boundaries given by Moses are
| not easily defined (See Mum. "a: ~;
Josh. IS: 15-3l, and chapters 10 and ls).
The south line across the desert was
from Kadesh Barnea to the river OF
Egypt" which is not the Nile. put
| small stream now known by the name
of El Arish, a few miles below
GAIA. The western boundary
is the Mediterranean as inr
| ms Sidon, From Sidon the line Of the
boundary ran east to some summit In
the mountains of Lebanon. called Hor
! by Moses. 1t Is perhaps Hermon.
| (Josh. 10: s; Judg. 8; 80 Thence the
line ran northeast up the valley OF
Celesyrie between Lebanon and Anti
Lebanon. passing Baalbec to the sources
OF the orontes, the ''entering in OF
Klamath" so often mentioned In tine
history of the Israelites tJosh. l3' .,
Judg. 3: 8; / Kings s.; 90; ii enron. Z:
s. 1t is the place where Pharaoh
Necho put Jehoahaz in bonds Oh Kings
81: 3S) From Zalad, which has been
Identified and lies in lat. "a degrees ~
north, the boundary passes over Anti
Lebanon and down the eastern SLOPE
to Lake Huloh, Tor the waters OF
Merom) and the Sea of Tiberias, fol-
lowing thence the Jordan to the Dead
| Sea.
The desert on the southern border OF
! Palestine rises, in the NH lahu ol
| Judea to the rugged mountainous cnain
, which runs north through the middle
of the land between the Mediterranean
| and the valley of the Jordan to the
region of Gulilee. This central chain
prescnts an uneven outline OF SUBMITS
from 900 to 1000 feet in height, and
| sends off different spurs to the right
and left separated by deep ravines,
which, winding about their bases ana
, running up into the central ridge. be
l come in the rainy season, watercourses
for the drainage of the land. At the
distance of n few miles south of the
: parallel of the Sea OF Galilee, in
9 Samaria, this highland breaks down 20
: the level of an elevated pam, anu
. sends off in northwestorly direction
n high continuous ridge. which juts out
{ some distance into the sea in the lofty
and beautiful promontory of Mount
l Carmel, 1900 feet In height.
? This is the eightieth communication
I | News" since / left my home on IA
= special mission in May, 1885, and no
4 doubt the last of lonr series which
will appear from my pen under the
c caption "Jenson's Travels" The let
y | TORS have been written under many dif-
r flcuIties, quite a number of them on
I shin board when my fellow passen-
;. gers would be wrestling with senslck-
!. ness or idling away their time IN the
smoking parlors, playing cards or
Q other games. q seldom suffered with
T. | sea sickness on my voyages.l The last
Q sixteen communications which have not
| been dated, We're mostly written on
: board the steamer Orotnva, on my
] voyage from Port Said. Egypt, 10 Ma
s plas, Italy but not submitted 10 the
n editor of the News" till after my re-
: turn home, June I, 1891.
= Ry way of conclusion may mere ADJ
: that after taking my departure from
; Palestine. / visited the iohoMlhs
r land Denmark. Norway, Sweden.
I schleswig-Holstein Hamburg, Hano-
o Yer. Prussia. Saxony, Bavaria, Swltzer-
n land, Elsasz-Lothringn Baden, Wur-
II tnmberg, Hcsscn, Holland, Wales, Ire
Il ,nrd and Scotland During my mission
. / circumnavigated the globe, Travelled
d about GO 900 miles. preached the Gospel
" an land and on sea, whenever had the
l. opportunity. and gathered great deal
= Ian nrove beneficial and interesting
e when il is prepared hereafter and
It Incorporated I'm the history OF the
s church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day
,. saints OF the Nineteenth century
., ANDREW JENSoN.
Is Salt Lake City, Jan. 81. 1888.
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