Show Brid Bridie Over River Jordan I Although generally It has H R swift swiftcurrent current with many rapids the River Jordan Is shallow In parts and anti fordable fordable ford ford- able while at Its lowest reaches Its lis lisI valley alley widens out into the once luxuriant luxuriant lux lux- lux I plain of Jordan where h r stood the famous city of Jericho and 11 south h hof of It the destroyed cities of f and Gomorrah Just below the s sea o. o of Galilee the Romans built a tone stone bridge the ruins of which are still In existence Further south Is a substantial bridge called the JUr probably also of Roman foundation repaired by the Saracens some lome cent centuries later Where the flows Into the Jordan are traces of another bridge long since allowed by Turkish Indifference to fallIn fall fallIn fallIn In ruins ruin This or another bridge lower down was destroyed by the Turks In 10 Inthe inthe the World war and replaced by the substantial stone and aDeS Iron Allenby bridge |