OCR Text |
Show Biblical Town of Gaza. Al-MIntar, or the watchtower, still exists to the east of the town of Gaza. It is where Samson is said to have carried car-ried the gates of the city. On the road from Gaza to Jaffa are ancient ollvo trees, many of them more than ono thousand years old, with gnarled bark and immense trunks. There Is an old legend which credits Gaza with the Invention In-vention of the first mechanical clocks. These were perhaps tho sand clocks which are still used In somo mosques. |