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C. R. Conder. Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure
Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM
CHAPTER II. SHECHEM AND THE SAMARITANS
CHAPTER III. THE SURVEY OF SAMARIA
CHAPTER IV. THE GREAT PLAIN OF ESDRAELON
CHAPTER V. THE NAZARETH HILLS
CHAPTER VI. CARMEL AND ACRE
CHAPTER VII. SHARON
CHAPTER VIII. DAMASCUS, BAALBEK, AND HERMON
CHAPTER IX. SAMSON’S COUNTRY
CHAPTER X. BETHLEHEM AND MAR SABA
CHAPTER XI. JERUSALEM
CHAPTER XII. THE TEMPLE AND CALVARY
CHAPTER XIII. JERICHO
CHAPTER XIV. THE JORDAN VALLEY
CHAPTER XV. HEBRON AND BEERSHEBA
CHAPTER XVI. THE LAND OF BENJAMIN
CHAPTER XVII. THE DESERT OF JUDAH
CHAPTER XVIII. THE SHEPHELAH AND PHILISTIA
CHAPTER XIX. GALILEE
CHAPTER XX. THE ORIGIN OF THE FELLAHÎN
CHAPTER XXI. LIFE AND HABITS OF THE FELLAHÎN
CHAPTER XXII. THE BEDAWÎN
CHAPTER XXIII. JEWS, RUSSIANS, AND GERMANS
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FERTILITY OF PALESTINE
CHAPTER XXV. THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE
APPENDIX
LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED
INDEX
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C. R. Conder
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Upon the refuse-heap, in the shade of the wall, the village elders may be seen seated smoking in rows, whilst the blue-gowned women toil up the hill with the goat-skin water-bags bound to their heads or the red pottery jars balanced upon them, holding in their tattooed lips the corner of the white head-veil which prevents their mouths being visible.
The plain once passed, the traveller enters the district called Shephelah, or “lowlands” in the Bible, consisting of low hills, about 500 feet above the sea, of white soft limestone, with great bands of beautiful brown quartz running between the strata. The broad valleys among these hills forming the entrances to the third district produce fine crops of corn, and on the hills the long olive-groves flourish better than in either of the other districts. This part of the country is also the most thickly populated, and ancient wells, and occasionally fine springs, occur throughout. The villages are partly of stone, partly of mud; the ruins are so thickly spread over hill and valley that in some parts there are as many as three ancient sites to two square miles. All along the base of these hills, commanding the passes to the mountains, important places are to be found, such as Gath and Gezer, Emmaus and Beth Horon, and no part of the country is more rich in Bible sites or more famous in Bible history.
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