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River Jordan and Dead Sea on the east. This line of upheaval 
forms a saddleback or anticlinal. The stratification of cretace- 
ous and nummulitic limestone of which the mountains are 
composed dipping in opposite directions, 7.e. west towards the 
Mediterranean Sea and east towards the Jordan Valley. The 
mountain range of Judah has many points exceeding 3000 
feet, and culminates at Yuttah, 3747 feet above the sea, being 
the reputed birthplace of John the Baptist. It has a some- 
what less elevation in Samaria, although Mts. Gerizim and 
Ebal attain heights of 2800 and 3000 feet respectively. The 
range is broken by the Great Plain of Esdraelon. North of 
which and around Nazareth the country is irregularly mount- 
ainous, whilst further north are the lofty mountains of Upper 
Galilee, mainly of volcanic origin. Jeb Jermuk, in the neigh- 
bourhood of Safed, attaining an elevation of 4000 feet nearly. 
Further north on the Chain of Lebanon, Jeb Sannin is 8500 feet. 
Anti-Lebanon 8700 feet at Tal’ at Misa, and snow-capped Her- 
mon 9200 feet above the Mediterranean Sea. The Carmel Chain 
which trends to the N.W. broken by the Milheh and Daliyeh 
Streams attains at Esfia 1729 feet, ending at Cape Carmel, 
which shelters Haifa Harbour from the 8.W. and W. These 
mountains are capped by nummulitic limestone. Major Corder 
speaks of having discovered a volcanic crater at Carmel, 
. previously unknown. The Range of Gilboa and Little Hermon 
which block the Esdraelon Plain on the east attain each an 
elevation of about 1700 feet, and Mt. Tabor to the north of 
them of 1820 feet. As to the extent of Palestine proper 
(exclusive of the possessions in Moab, Syria, and Arabia, held 
in the days of King David and Solomon) the distance from Dan 
to Beersheba is but about 120 miles, and Palestine proper 
extending between these places and west of the Jordan to the 
sea, which is the portion of the country that has been accurately 
surveyed, occupies an area of about 6000 square miles, being in 
round numbers but one-tenth of the area of England and Wales.* 
The Mediterranean Coast forms the western boundary— 
* The total kingdom of King Solomon would be in extent about the same as 
that of England and Wales, 58,281 sq. miles. 
