| Show accumulation of ages in deed seas flotsam travelers in tile the noty holy land visiting the deepest hole in the earths surface that occupied by the dead sea into W which aich the jordan empties itself are always struck with astonishment at the sight of countless count leis numbers of palm tree trunks heaped beeped by tile the waters on its banks there are now no such numbers of palin groves in tile the vicinity or on the banks of the jordan the arnon or other rivers it owing flowing into this sea tor for so prodigious 11 as s would account an amount of deb debris arts any attempt at building a fire out of the mass of flotsam results after exercising much plit lence in feeble blue flames of no great intensity T the lie wood Is heavily impregnated with salt from the dead sea salt bellor lake asphalted Asphalt ea es as a it has been called led that Is 19 Is pickled and will last for centuries the accumulations of countless ages are represented in those plies piles of roots and logs carrying the mind back bach to the time when the four kings made the first incursion from mesopotamia into canaan near halazon tamar or the rows hows of palms the modern engedi genesis 14 7 captured lot and tits his family but were followed and detested defeated by abraham |
