| Show I JENSONS TRAVELS Thursday July 2 18S8 feeling somewhat some-what rested I arose quite early In order or-der to take In tho tights In and around Tiberias Sly first number on the rogram aB R ohort mail on the Bin of Oalllec being careful to make proper contract In regard to time and amount to be paid Tor these Arab boatmen boo the audacity to make the most extortionate charges of tour Jsts for n Ball on the lake One traveler trav-eler an Irish pilgrim who failed fail sea or Oalllo some limo ago on paged nn Arab to take him across the Juke without agreeing about the price before hand On returning In the evening the Mllalnous native demanded de-manded 10 for his da Via woik Ten dollari repeated the astounded Irishman Irish-man US the h v it la I no wonder won-der that Jesus walked I truly enjoyed my short boat ride I on the historic lako and by my re clues t lh a We amen landed mo 0 short distance south or the town from horI hor-I TV allied to the hot springs situated en tho lake shore about one and a half miles south of Tiberias A hort distance bejiind these spring around a point I took a refreshing bath and swon In the cl car waters or the lake after which I returned to the town walked around lIB wells asionded the ruins of the old castle situated immediatelY Imme-diately north of the town and walked through the principal streets the 1m jar etc I also took a walk along the I eh ahW lake shore fMtheilng shells und small stones to carry amay with me When finally night came I chose to sit up 10 R chaIr on the hotel Porch rather than submit to a repetition or the ex r rlence of the picvlous night when the unmolcltul fleOB lerpetrate such outrages upon mI person that I looked R complete smallpox patient In the mornlug The Sea of Onlllce also called the take of Tiberias whleh Is I the seen of An manr Incid 1 tile n e Ith or Savior a ministry w I e In it deep valley encircled by mountains which rise on the cast from the waters edge by steep acclivities until they reach the 1 height of a thousand or twelve hundred hun-dred re14 On the west arid espcelall in the northwest the hills are lower I and r iti broken Occasionally they rIte recede I little flons ilia share anti forin small plains of great fertlllt The Ite f of tIRtt lttilr gre test length ot the lake la thirteen j mil s 11I01 six brood the waleis < Ire cure and llmi Id and abound with fish as In the days of the Hmlor From Its position between high hills It Isexpoited I to sudden gusts of wind The Inck bordering the lake are i I Allyn ge I stone anA the whol region volcanic I 1 Xenr Tiberias on the southwest shore of the lake RIO val hot springs i and on the opposite side several these at a short distance ftotn the nhoie The OIlolon line been olmne by some 1 that the lake Itself occupies the crater of an extinct volcano The surface of tile hike according to the last Bur MJ Is I GW feet below tht level I of the Mediterranean Its depth Is from 151 tu 2JO feet nnd In the north ni much as 820 feet The height of the water how ever varleR Ith the oason We learn from the 0 ant wis that tho like weB once navigated by numerous vessels I ves-sels I but titers arm now R ree fishing boat only I TlberloB mentioned In John C23 Is the only town on the lake at tho present pres-ent time The city of Tiberias so le nowned In history was built I by Herod I Antlpas by who order John the Ila fillet was beheaded and Is I suppose to have been one or till rest IdVivices It Is now race fly in ruins The terrible earthquake of Jan 1 137 seriously damaged the walls end I houses causing the death i about Onehalf I of the t pop I illation Of the 4000 Inhal Itnnts who reside here at present about twothirds I Ore Jews nearly 1 200 arc Moslems 00 t orthadox Creeks and st fem LIttivis and Jrotestnnts Nearly nil the Inhabitants 1 I arc poor and sickly Some traeleis deierllix Tiberias as the most wretched 1 of all I the town In Palestine It lies directly upon the shore on n 1 t r d lh II narres strip of undulating tin be I I and which the mountain rise wry rteepl Near tile relebrated hot springs are round various fragments or eolumno or red arid 1 gray granite and marble < together with other Iron cations which mark the sight or the an < lent town Tile wuter lIow from the nrlh too hot to ho bollle hy the hand nnd It In I excessively olt nnd bitter and enifts R strong smell at sulphur sul-phur The hcnt of the summer at Tiberias a s at Jericho Is almost Insupportable Intl the climate sickly The Inhabitants or the roat find prontohlc employment In raising early I < gr tabtes grape nnd mrtnns for the markets ol Damascus These productions mature In this val Iv < much earlier than on the high land of nallloe or Ulead The scenery of the Ia l ke has not the stern nnl awful fen lures of ilIA Pearl Sea but Is more rich In hallowed uisorlatlons and more at tra III In th < soflrned Ixaulles of the landscape Th view of It from the etrn height when I last qRW II b seeks Orion the oprooohing lroeler milli singular pmer Near the northern extremity of the lake there mere In the dajs of the KaUor two I towns at tile name ot Ifethmhli one Is I In file neighborhood or olernanm and hornln on the I ost side or the lake tho other on the rastlrn shore This situation ot live rormr whlc man the city or Peter And Anlrw rind Involved In the loom of Capernaum and Choiazln Is I lost the latter mentioned by lIke chapter 9 verse 10 nDr which Jesus fed the 111 thousand was enlarged by Philip the tetrach The ruins ot It tire Just bend ° be-nd n small plain or surpassing fer tilitY nt the distance nf n mile more than on houi0 journey hr > ond the Jor dan where It enters Into the lake They Ill Y a Icn11 Or till I vbieh In a spite frolapthe i lvmu tnln I an the cast run 11121 g down Into ills p1nin tow rI the Jordan After nJIII the live ri hou Find Iouo ordred His dlselples to erf > s Opt Into the other IlethiahH on fo estern shme hleh ho went Vat to IIar nrJl tile eftstorn mountain in pray It was while crossingthi > lake on that occasion that n storm struck their lit tilt craft ned that Inns who had been Asleep iebiikr1 Ilie wind Matt S r hllP tj Mixkrn Ilbestud < I however alfclalm tho theory of two Jlclhsaldas n1 SIP301t that there never was bt into Pines ot that nom An I vat Alone upon the top ot the ruined wells of t so ancient eAstle at Till llaa and looked upon the desola I lion around Ins I filed to conceive of 0e ne tilt Kof fhVitlwJKn0hlTneThf days of Christ Then he Joh dlsolol raveled through thp niimer oil townit end 0111117f 5 8 Ituated on the shore n this tI heninUul I IBJ lake teaching the E1nnnt of life I and salvation lo I hi In h inhabitants There nre no Iropheti and Apostles to n this land I now The Ohs of Inspired men have not been I hrard tor < many generations save on ni a few viectivions diarist the Present cen tury when Illcrs tiff the Church of Jesus Christ Dt tfrday Saints have i 1P iMIn airkh visited r IJl1 PJlMtlne anti then like my pelf they have had no real oppor I fussily ff teaching the peoi Io the nos Pil In Its parlay r change Hut while which J I had sighed taken ever plap the great both rhyslcnlly nnd spiritually In 1 this once JJ ord < 1 orrr I felt truly thankful to the lor lFrnel I orrl could think of Alroft other count tar awit beyond I t broad expanse of ilia great son I Manville ocean wit ere the lit OvIr e 4 teachings Of Ilopheta t and Apostles are otlll heard and where the ordlunnceo or the evinInxthin Gospel I nro being taught and administered In tho same maner arid by the name dl i Ine authority as they were clghte hundred years ago are und the beaut I f lit Sea of UallleeANDI1CW ANDREW JENSON |
