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Palestine April 24,, 1920 At the northern tip is Lake Hula.
Robinson, biblical scholar, was born in Southington, Connecticut, and raised on a farm. His father was a minister in the Congregational Church of the town for four decades. Robinson traveled to Palestine in 1838 in the company of Rev. Eli Smith.
Tel Dan is the modern Israeli name for the site, based on the original Biblical name
The Tel Dan Nature Reserve was first declared on 39 hectares surrounding the tel in 1974. 9 hectares were added to the reserve in 1989. The Dan River is one of the three water sources of the Jordan River which meet in the northern part of the Hula Valley. Notable points of interest include Paradise Springs, the Abraham or Canaanite Gate and the Israelite Gate.
Dan was the northern and Beersheba the southern limit of Palestine. It's like the American saying of "from Maine to Texas."
He had thought of Palestine as large as the USA when young, and said he now had to unlearn such ideas as its size and about kings. Here in Ain Mellahah (a village This site is located in northern Israel, 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the Sea of Galilee, and is in an area surrounded by hills and located by an ancient lake, Lake Huleh. At the time of its Natufian inhabitance, the area was heavily forested in oak, almond, and pistachio trees.,) after coming through Syria, and after serious study to the character and customs of the country, all this "kings" loses its grandeur. It suggests only a parcel of petty chiefs-ill-clad and ill conditioned savages much like our Indians, who lived in full sight of each other and whose "kingdoms" were large when they were 5 miles square and contained 2,000 souls. The combined monarchies of the 30 "kings" destroyed by Joshua on one of his famous campaigns, only covered an area about equal to 4 of our counties of ordinary size.
The poor old sheik we saw at Cesarea Philippi (is one of several names under which an ancient city located at the southwestern base of Mount Hermon was known during the Roman period, after being previously known during the Hellenistic period as Paneas.with his ragged band of 100 followers, would have been called a "king") in those ancient times.....Alas, there is no dew here, nor flowers, nor birds, nor trees. there is a plain and an unshaded lake and beyond them some barren mountains. the tents are tumbling, the Arabs are quarreling like dogs and cats, as usual, the campground is strewn with packages and bundles, the labor of packing them upon the backs of the mules is progressing with great activity, the horses are saddles, the umbrellas are out, and in 10 minutes, we shall mount and the long procession will move again. The white city of the Mellahah, (Mallaha (Arabic: ملاّحة) was a Palestinian Arab village, located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) northeast of Safed, on the highway between the latter and Tiberias. 'Ain Mallaha is the local Arabic name for a spring that served as the water source for the village inhabitants throughout the ages. It is also one of the names used in English to refer to the ancient Natufian era settlement at the site.) resurrected for a moment out of the dead centuries, will have disappeared again and left no sign.
We traversed some miles of desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent, mournful expanse, wherein we saw only 3 persons-Arabs, with nothing on but a long coarse shirt like the "tow-linen" shirts which used to form the only summer garment of little negro boys on Southern plantations. Shepherds they were...
Jordan River
"We had hardly begun to appreciate yet that we were standing upon any different sort of earth than that we had always been used to, and see how the historic names began already to cluster! Dan-Bashan-Lake Huleh-the sources of Jordan-the Sea of Galilee. They were all in sight but the last, and it was not far away. The little township of Bashan was once the kingdom so famous in Scripture for its bulls and its oaks. Lake Huleh is the Biblical "Waters of Meron."
It took Mark Twain and others about an hour's ride over a rough rocky road, half flooded with water and through a forest of oaks of Bashan that brought them to Dan.
He described a little mound in the plain that issued a broad stream of limpid water, forming a large shallow pool and then rushing onward, as a puddle. He said that the puddle was an important source of the Jordan River. It's banks and those of the brook were adorned with blooming oleanders. Evidently he had read Syrian books of travel which said that such beauty would throw a well-balanced man into convulsions, which he thought to be so untrue.
Tiberias: We were camped...just within the city walls of Tiberias. We went into the town before nightfall and looked at its people---we cared nothing about its houses. Its people are best examined at a distance. They are particularly uncomely Jews, Arabs, and negroes. Squalor and poverty are the pride of Tiberias. The young women wear their dower strung upon a strong wire of silver coins which they have raked together or inherited....They say that the long-nosed, lanky, dyspeptic-looking body-snatchers, with the indescribable hats on, and the long curl dangling down in front of each ear, ae the old, familiar, self-righteous Pharisees we read of in the Scriptures. Verily, they look it, judging merely by their general style, and without other evidence, one might easily suspect that self-righteousness was their specialty."
Beersheva, 1901, mostly an Arab town.
Beersheva aerial view in 1917. Photo courtesy of American Colony - Matson Archive/US Library of Congress Beersheba is located on the northern edge of the Negev desert 115 kilometres (71 mi) south-east of Tel Aviv and 120 kilometres (75 mi) south-west of Jerusalem. In summer, the temperatures are high in daytime and nighttime with an average high of 34.7 °C (94 °F) and an average low of 21.4 °C (71 °F). Winters have an average high of 17.7 °C (64 °F) and average low of 7.1 °C (45 °F). Snow is very rare; a snowfall on February 20, 2015, was the first such occurrence in the city since 2000.
Resource:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1787272385367494897/6715434749954466520 weather
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_(ancient_city)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Robinson_(scholar)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallaha
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