The Comparative Geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula
Subtitle: Volume 2
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: February 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781402180552
Subjects: Palestine,comparative geography,Sinaitic Peninsula; Science / Geography
First sentence: FROM the Sinai Peninsula, which, we may regard as the vestibule of Palestine, we advance into the Promised Land by three routes: the first along the shore from Gaza to Askelon; the second on the track of the pilgrims, over the very back of the Tih plateau, in a path more or lees trodden in the most ancient as well as in comparatively modern and in most recent times-gradually exchanging the savage waste for the deepening green of the outlying southern eminences of the Jebel Chalil or Hebron, once inhabited by a thronging population, and covered with cities; and the third by the route which has been re-opened within our days-the most easterly one of all-that of Wadi Musa, through the depression of the Araba and el-Ghor to the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, where the great gorge which runs through the whole length of Palestine finds its key, and solve the entire physical character of the country.