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Show Beautiful Old City Long Noted Seaport Probably the most ancient of all seaports sea-ports is Joppn, on the Mediterranean coast, the nearest harbor to Jerusalem Jerusa-lem and for centuries Palestine' most important commercial trading port of entry. The name means "The. P.eautlful," and its situation well entitles it to bs so called. It Is built on a lofty rocky knoll on the edge of the sea, its fortifications for-tifications facing seawurd, with an encircling en-circling wnll within which lis buildings are crowded tier nbove tier on liewu-out liewu-out terraces. Surrouudug It are th luxuriant plains of the Shephelah or low country, whera are the groves producing the famous Jaffa oranges, the most luscious and costly the world lias yet known, the olive trees which have always furnished much of its trade, fig trees and date palms, as well as the great wheat Holds of tho country. |