338 Deseripiion of Minerals from Palestine. 
porous, their cavities. being occasionally occupied by meso- 
types or by plumose carbonate of lime. (Clarke.) 
5. “Taken out of the brook, where it is said, David 
icked up thesstones, with one ée which he slew Goliagi, Ag 
i stones, all water-worn masses of grayish white 
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» Philistines stood on a movatain on the one side, 
[stood ona mountain on the other side: and there 
wasa valley between ‘hem.” This was the valley of Elah. 
“As ck country was then.” says Dr. Clarke, ‘soat is now. 
y brook. whence : David chose him five smooth 
s been noticed by many a thirsty pilgrim, jour- 
neying from Jaffa to Jerusalem; all of whom must pass it in 
their way.” This writer, w who was an able geologist. informs 
us, that the country, between : 
ively rough, and broken, and tbe road intolerable Ric 
alley “hess are, where be saw ‘‘ plentiful crops of tobacco, 
‘wheat. barley, Indian millet, melons, vines, pumpkins, and 
cucumbers$} among cragey ‘mountains of naked lime- 
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ne.” 
6. “From the precipice, on the —— of which Nozatath 
is — It is a coarse, rye ompact Ji his 
entioned by St. Luke. ‘And they 
‘bieust: im (Christ) out of the city, and led him unto the 
brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might 
cast him down headlong.” Nazareth, where the angel an- 
nounced to Mary, that she should be the joyful mother of 
the Redeemer of the world, is situated, says Clarke, ‘on a 
barren. rocky elevation. facing the east,” and the couniry 
around it bids defiance ‘o agriculture. It is about two leagues 
north from mount Tabor (Calmet): from which you have 
one of the finest views in Syria. (Volney.) This is an iso- 
lated mountain, of a eonical form, and -‘ appears to be a full 
mile in height;” paths are made on the south side, by which 
travellers may ascend it on horseback. At the bottom of the 
mountain, it looks as if it terminated in a point; but on as- 
cending. you find, at the top, a level plain, three thousand 
paces in circumference, and covered with noble oaks; 
(D‘Arvieux.) From this alpine plain, Barak, accompanied 
by Deborah, descended, with his little band of soldiers, to 
attack and annihilate the legions of the host of Sisera. Here, 
it Is believed, the transfiguration of our Saviour took place ; 
when Peter said to his ihaster, ‘it ig good for us to’be here : 
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