Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body And Spirit
Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body And Spirit
Van Dyke Henry
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But presently the ravine leads us, by steep stairs of rock, up to a high, green table-land. A heavenly breeze from the west is blowing here. The fields are full of flowers — ^red anemones, white and yellow daisies, pink flax, little blue bell-flowers — a hundred kinds. One knoll is covered with cyclamens; an* other with splendid purple iris, immense blossoms, so dark that they look almost black against the grass; but hold them up to the sun and you will see the imperial colour. We have never fo...und such 157 A JOURNEY TO JERASH wild flowers, not even on the Plain of Sharon; the hills around Jerusalem were but sparsely adorned in comparison with these highlands of bloom. And here are oak-trees, broad-limbed and friendly, clothed in glistening green. Let us rest for a while in this cool shade and forget the misery of the blaz- ing noon. Below us lies the gray Jordan valley and the steel-blue mirror of the Dead Sea ; and across that gulf we see the furrowed mountains of Judea and Samaria, and far to the north the peaks of Galilee.
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