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The Oldest Of Flie Old World. By Sophia ...
our turn conies , and the camels deemed most capable of conveying human freight are brought into the arena . An Arab puts his knee on the neck
of the great beast to insure his remaining quiet , then the dragoman piles on rugs , cushions , shawls , and saddle-bags filled with books , and announces , ' all ri seems ght . ' not In at another all uncomfortable second the intrep until the id traveller second act mounts of the to her drania seat , beg which ins .
The camel makes ready to rise by a preparatory motion , not unlike a steamer getting up her steam before starting . A struggling effort ensues , and then in a most unexpected manner the fore-legs of your conveyance seem to be abruptly
cut off , throwing you forwards with a sudden impetus ; but before you have time to reflect on consequences , the hind-legs in a similar manner give way . A third and a fourth of these extraordinary efforts bring the rider to a sort
! of N ~ ow temporary the camel calm manifests , at an awful his hei readiness ght poised to in start air , b awaiting y a disagreeable the next change way of . testing the security and balance of his burden , a tremendous shake which _,
threatens an immediate overthrow . Thus embarked upon the great ship of the desert , and sailing upon a sea of sand , we began our journey through the wilderness . The partyin the first flush of enthusiasmmean to readwrite
and even sketch . The , saddle-bags are well lined with , authorities for , the , way . Robinson , Stanley , and Stewart , look up inquiringly from one side—on the other , the well-worn covers of the Bible appear—the guide-book in every
sense of the term . But what a romance it is to think of reading type on camelback ? There is but one readable volume , namely the scene spread out before the eyewhich one can really studwhose pages turn of themselvesand whose
chapters , date from so distant a p y erio , d that the mind aches with the , effort of retrogression . As the day advances , we do not get more reconciled to the mode of locomotion . In vain we try to comfort ourselves with having heard
it said , that the human mind is so happily constituted , that in time it can accommodate itself to any circumstances . We wonder , if that may possibly be in store for us at some distant dayand we do not wonder that Rebekah
; cealed when ' herself she saw . ' Isaac Gladl , li y ghted we welcomed from off' her the camel second , and night took of her our veil encampment and con- , the last before entering the wilderness . "
The Sea of Galilee is a good example of some of our remarks . " Silent but eloquent are the shores of the Sea of Galilee , reflecting in its
tranquil waters the ranges of barren mountains . Late in the afternoon we reached How changed Tiberias since , the He old that Roman was city ' made , and flesh the , ' onl dwelt y inhabited here , when town Capernaum on the lake , .
Chorazin , and Bethsaida were flourishing citieswhen the boats of the fishermen sailed on the lake , and the hum of voices and , the stir of busy labor were heard stands on close its to shores the shore ! The The Roman Romans city made of Tib the erias city , with one of its importance ruinous wall oil s
account of its natural warm baths . The ancient wall , now vine-grown , bat , - Anti tered pas , and . In in some 1837 , p an laces earth breached quake destroyed open to the Tiberias sea , was , five the hundred work of Jews Herod and
twenty-four Christians perished , and the shock was felt even to the coast of Syria . After the capture of Jerusalem , Godfrey de Bouillon built a fine castle But here , b which y the Sea is now of a Galilee pile of ruins our thoug , luxuriantl hts do y not overgrown revert to with Roman vines emperor and shrubs s or .
Crusaders , but rather to the , memory of Him who was ' full of grace and truth , had who taug spake ht as the never _] : > eop man le . lie spake had , ' upon sat in these the boat shores with . the On sons the grassy of Zebedee bank ; s and He
the on these distance water is s ! N had aih , appeared where the to sorrowing Peter , walking widow on had % he at waves His . hands _JSTot far received off in back to life her dead son . By this sea , too , Christ had appeared for the last
tim was so to his densel disciples u after lated his that resurrection He mad . e it In the the chief Saviour scene 's time of , this his labors region . y pop ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1860, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091860/page/57/
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