Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gardens, full of all kintls of fruit-trees, especially walnuts.The minarets of the great city soon glittered before us in the distance,but they proved still a very long way off: the clear air deceiving us asto their proximity. Only near villages were there any signs of therichness of the greatly-extolled plains which we were now traversing;but round them was a fulness of verdure which quite hid the yellow-washed houses. Signs of approaching a large city appeared as werode on: the carriage of some rich person passed us, and also somehired carriages, with nondescript drivers, carrying their fares to theirdestinations. Mezzeh, a village outside Damascus, is virtually thecommencement of the city, and a pleasant place it is, with vineyards,groves of olives, and clumps of fruit-trees of many kinds. The fieldswere irrigated by a canal from the river Barada, to which Damascusand the neighborhood owe their charms, and indeed their fitness for 1 ncut. lii. 13; Josh. xiii. 30. 2 Judg. x. 3—5.
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Water-fall on the Upper Course of the Barada or Ancient Abaua. (See page 60W Il DAMASCUS. 603 human habitation, for without this stream there could be only sterility.The sun shone from an unclouded heaven as we rode on, always at awalk, towards the city, over the same road, in all probability, as thatalong which the persecuting Saul was hurrying with his attendantswhen, on a day as bright as this, the Splendor of God, outshining eventhe noon, dazzled him to bhndness, so that he fell to the ground, andheard the words Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?^ Everj-feature of the surrounding landscape stood out in sharp distinctness—hills, bowers of green, towers, buildings, and houses, while on eachside of the road, inside roughly-plastered walls which are no credit tothe Damascus masons, great lines of fruit-trees stretched away in greenperspective, with the slow waters of irrigating canals glittering under-neath. In the west, behind us, rose the majestic Hermon, its blinding-white crow

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