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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, but often left to thornsand scrub. In a short side valley closed by a hill, numbers of rocktombs had been cut in the thicker bands. Riding to the end of this,over a track thick with stones and boulders, Ave found a fine spring atthe roadside, with a pool. A broken trough lay at the side, and apeasant was busy washing himself in the beck, though it was the onlydrinking-supply. Stones around, hollowed to contain water, servedfor the wants of flocks. A number of country people were beside thefountain, the intelligent faces of the children very pleasan* to see,though here, as elsewhere, many were suffering from affections of theeye. Some gardens of young fig-trees had been planted at the top ofthe valley, and were enclosed within Joose stone walls, but most of thelittle glen was lying wild on both sides of the white torrent bed, nowdry, that wound through it. Two rock tombs, once ))art of the low brow of rock beside thespring, had become detached from the hill; one slipping forward in a
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^XXIV.l BETHHORON, BETHEL, SHILOH. 471 great mass, with a deeply hollowed round roof, and a cavity within;the other broken m pieces. Strange to say, there were rock-cut stepsstill joined to the unbroken one, at the side. The hill opposite wasterraced; fig-trees were growing on the ledges, some fringing the swell-ing at its top. Ridino; back to the ruins themselves, we found them on the breastof a low swell, beside the poor modern village. An oak, though ofcourse not like those of England for size, gave dignity to the spot, andthrew a shadow over a small, half-ruined Mahommedan mosque. Nothigher than fifteen or twenty feet, the inner space had once beenvaulted. Two chambers, supported on short pillars, with a prayer-niche to the south, filled up the thirty-seven feet of its length. Partof it was evidently very old; the rest spoke of different dates, and ofmaterials gathered from various sources. The capital of one of thepillars rested on a disproportionately thick shaft, and two fairly

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