Show PALESTIN f 41 4 1 RAN it 11 MW I 1 4 I 1 e aei 4 lv P R t L IVA 0 Y 41 11 WA N I 1 M n w I 1 im 1 t 4 1 4 X where the children of israel crested he jordan by the th national society washington n D C palestine home of christianity the ae british mandate tor for which lias has been lican formally fori nally approved by the council of the TA league ague tot bf nations hns has probably never been better described than by the late viscount bryce fornier british ambassador to the united states in a communication to the national geographic society I 1 lie I 1 e wrote of the holy land ns As follows 11 a tiny little country though the travelers handbooks pro pic pare par hlin him to find it 1 small it surprises him film by being si smaller lhnn lie expected taking it as the region between tile the mediterranean on the west and the jordan and dead sea on the east front from the spurs of lebanon find ller nion on oil tile hie north to the desort at beersheba on oil the llie uth it Is only miles long lone and from DO BO to CO 60 broad that Is to soy any it Is smaller than new jersey 1 whose hose I area Is square miles of this region large parts ald not really belong to ancient israel their bat bold on an the ern anti and northern districts was hut but sli alit while in the file southwest n wide rich plain along tile the was occupied by if the I 1 e warlike philistines who were some tirres more than if mutch match for the lie IW brew armies isrnel had in fact more mom than lion tile the country alil if fat la beti between veen the jordin on the pat east pa t and the morl ilme plain on file I 1 lie wet west kini david in the days of his power looked down own from the hill altes of ait north of Jerus niem upon phil letone only 25 2 milles off on in th alm one ahle and looked across the alic jordan to nebout its as far off nn the other nearly all tile events in llie flip his arv of israel fil that lint fire recorded in ahe old within a berd tory no 11 blyer alinn the llie mate of con neet lent eliose area is miles find of into any other country linit ani twerp crowded from IP days of abraham till our own so i litt nry alint Is in so rny so away v event vi antt that hat inep been and deserve to be recorded in tin the annuls annals of mankind its smallness Is visible nor iq it on only bialt h t time 11 14 A small counte olI tit tin traveler Irav fer fols as lie moves abour that tant it 1 Is A small fron alp tl a few miles north of berti lalum tie lie sees foes lobins northward a far oy ot iain ailt bomanz snow for el elslo ait nion monalia flis in flip year par tt it li bip henrly fett feet high flerin nn fount fountains nIng lie of r dam n tens bitt t Is mitsie tile territory of israil in the lie lend land of tile lie syrians so too it Is of lebanon Lp havon we art arp opt apt to in thin of that mountain ann ans ia as within tile the chantry count rv becot isto Is 19 nisi Is fien ionly mentioned in ili the papi and the prophets hut but the file two ranes of leh 10 anon alo rise beyond the armillei of iscol hrasc dying het kettren tren HIP flip arian pf af Damn ikens anil and the lie phoenicians Phoenicia long ns of b he 0 bep appt t palestine Is 19 a 1 poor oar in any naturel resouro lesouro s arc praet practically lew no nn mineral tin cool fal no fill iron no copper no sliver silver tho ilal recen ae otie oil alj litis hwn daw in the valley neither lire are there any lara for forests eRts and thoad flip land may haip epen better in tile CK days of joshua joslen than it Is now if 19 tittle little in 0 o think flint the woods avre of trees large to it source A comparatively small area Is tit 11 cpr tl knef to rn arab tribe tant lied had through a barren wilder wilderness nevi for 10 40 weary years inny well hove seemed a 0 daill florl sl orl but bat many a n county fai li binnal it a department I 1 part ment in front could i 1 I rn asp rit miro ore crale or air wine than till nil the holy land thre there Is one of fertile level lanil land 20 miles long ions ond and from 1 t to 0 11 miles alde tro plain of put with this his exception it li 14 only in the bot bottoms forns and oil the lower louer slopes of a few valleys chiefly in life herrl tory of from bethel northward nial bi id along the shores sharps of the 13 nay ay of nf acre acra that one sepi ces cornfields olive ive yards tards and orchards little wine 9 now grown such wenith wealth aa a the abe country cor has insists in its pa tures and tile ibe e res loa P land dowen with wh milk and honey tely describes the alio best it hns has to olter for sheep find and goate gouts can thrive on tile the thin herbage that flint cohere the hills and the numerous aronin tic plants furnish plenty of excellent food for tile lie bees but it la Is nearly nil all thin patine 6 for the mad Is try and tile the soil mostly shallow the sheep and goats vastly outnumber th oxen woody hushan bastian on nil the past cast side of jordan Is still life lie where ono one inest look loolu for life strong built palestine Is not a beautiful cau country the scholar finds charms everywhere in greece a n land consecrated to him film by tile genius of and philosophers although a great gre lit part of greece Is painfully dry and hire I 1 are so too the traveler who brings a ml ni suffused by reverence find piety to spots hallowed ballon cil hy by rell religious lous sees the landscapes of the lie italy holy land through it a golden have that malcos makes them infelt hut but the scenery of the italy holy land taken ns as a whole hole Is inferior both jn it forin arid in ia color to that hint of northern anti and middle italy to that of norway and sot sent land annd to tn that of the casts of u A asia 5 lit minor to flint of many parts of call fornia and washington the hills are nut flat topped ridges with A monotonous sky line very ory few or of them sh aiming ally dIstl distinctive distractive actIve shave shape not a peak nud tabor the tha only summit by its form foral they are all composed or of gray or reil red dish gray limestone hure of wood and often too stony for till tillage between ilc the lie stones or piles or rock there tire arr low shrubs and in ili the few weeks of spring musses nf if brilliant lowera I 1 give rich itch hues to tho landscape i but for the rest of tho the year aar till all Is gray or nr brown tim the grass kansa Is withered away or Is scorched saoi alicd lion brown and scarcely tiny follose Is spun tin on the tops or upper aloi es of tile lie rolling lulls it la Is only ionly lit in some of the llie valleys that one flails finds villages cs nestling aifons olive grol gros us and where alicio plums plant anil anti and almond blossoms lunau like spring lovely loc lv few wells and springs arld arid indeed Is the land tile the Ir travel rivel er cr baa bilth tle the 1 ily sul jong in ill a dry lead land where wherein lit nu IM water Is wells lvell s me are le fe springs still fewer and of brit bloks olig thero there are none for the stony channels lie 14 at tile the bottom of the glea have no ater except after it winter vinter rainstorm there may inay probably pro ally have been it a more inore copious rainfall 20 1 10 or of 30 centuries ago 11 g when laore woods clothed file find the country wohld then lime been moru mare pleasing to in eyed eila to are 1 itar because rills nume mahe music and green boughn wave in the wind to tills general description lon there are ci exceptions extort ions which not be forgotten for golten ten the high ridge of mount carmel cannel rles grandly front filin tale the seli hen find on oil Us its land side down dovin in n hold deel hilled and dorp glens upon tile tho allej valley through which tile bishon Kin lion oil nil tilleo A carcam alli hilda finds its way tn ill the 11 liny ay of acre here upon lie slopes of a long ridge e on oil other ahle of tile there Is a wilder 1 ng na juiest of ancient holm onks oaks all 1116 lii ore because it Is tile the vite MIL stretch sti etch of natural binl in tile whole country fedt of 0 Jim J birt alestine Is not ilot a land of natural health nor n latia of n aural natural beauty Is it what are the impressions which itu file trave er tries frits to see it exactly ns its it Is cor curri rio away with allm roughly KouK lily suni summed nied up till tiie cie are these Ston cli caves ebes tombs rains battlefields sites hallowed hy by traditions nil bathed in ia un atin of jegens eod and abit marvel never won wai there a country not bp be I 1 ins ng tin an esert desert so stony tit the hill wes see seem one 11 a 1511 i 1 loose rocks larrer of i sin aller the olive yards ards anti ami vineyards are full fall of hones ellen thel lie cornfields except in tile lie soil of tile the of nf along the lie sea sandy I 1 ly ill A st seen seem to 1 have lave more pe pebbles hilles then than parth so that one wonders ven ders how croel so alioa ns as one son seis sel sei is s rail enn earn up olives caves anre everywhere for limestone Is the prevailing rock rack find it Is it tho rock tile the of rain makes clata anti and hollows ballun find and aberns inna rooi fre frequent quint 4 |