Handbook of Bible geography by Whitney George Henry

Author:Whitney, George Henry. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bible
Publisher: New York, Eaton & Mains; Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings
Published: 1899-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

turns and twists exceedingly, and becomes very narrc w. At this point the river forks out into six different channels. Of these the canoeist says, " Every one was hopelessly bad, and . . . the Rob Roy became firmly entangled in a maze of bushes eight feet high." Leaving this impassable spot, Macgregor, by a circuitous route, passed southward to the north end of Lake Huleh, (Heroin,) to find the Jordan as it enters the lake. The result was "the complete and novel discovery of the hitherto unknown channel of Jordan." Eminent geographers have stated that the Jordan enters Lake Huleh " close to the eastern end of the upper side." But Macgregor's more sure mode of investigation as a canoeist has determined that the channel enters the lake nearly midway on the northern shore. The mouth of the Jordan "here is one hundred feet wide, and it is entirely concealed from both shores by a bend it makes to the east. The river thus enters the lake at the end of a promontory of papyrus. . . . Once round the corner, and entering the actual river, it is a wonderful sight indeed, as the graceful channel winds in ample sweeps or long straight reaches in perfect repose and loneliness, with a soft, silent beauty all its own."— Ibid., p. 288. Proceeding northward, Rob Roy " entered a beautiful little lake. . . . The general contour of it was round, but the edges were curved into deep bays, with dark alleys and bright projecting corners, and islets dotted the middle. . . . The breadth of this east and west was estimated at half a mile."—P. 293. After the most careful inspection Macgregor was convinced that this lake is " the earliest flow of the Jordan as one river" after it dives into the barrier whither he had traced it a few days before. The north end of this lake he computes at less than three miles and a half from the mouth of the chanueL He estimates the breadth of the barrier above noted at about half a mile. Lake Huleh was sounded by this indomitable boatman in every direction, and it shows an average depth (in the winter time) of about eleven feet. In one place it was seventeen feet deep, but in no part of the lake did he find three fathoms of water. Leaving Lake Huleh at its southern extremity, the Jordan runs on with the very rapid descent of about seven hundred feet in the next ten miles, when it empties into the sea of Galilee. Plowing out from the south -ern end of this sea, the stream descends with great speed, more rapidly in some places than in others, until it is lost in the Dead Sea. From the Has-bany source to the Dead Sea the direct distance is about 120 miles; but v the crooked line of the Jordan is about 200 miles. The source at Hasbeiya " is 1,700

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