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300 yards in diameter, now called Tell el-Kady, “ The hill of 
the Judge.” It is the site of the primeval Phoenician city 
Laish, which the Danites captured and “ called after the 
name of their father” (Judg. xviii. 27 — 29). It is interesting 
to note that Dan iu Hebrew has the same meaning as Kady 
iu Arabic , — “ Judge ” ; so that Tell el-Kady might be rendered 
in Biblical phraseology “ the mound of Dan.” The site is 
now desolate, and covered with a dense jungle of thorns and 
thistles, emblems of the curse pronounced upon all the high 
places of Palestine which the Jews had polluted by idol- 
worship (Ezek. yi. 3, 4; Isa. xxxiv. 13). There, at first, the 
Danites set up the graven image which they took from Micah, 
and there, nearly 500 years later, Jeroboam set up ono of his 
golden calves (Judg. xviii. 30 ; 1 Kings xii. 29). 
4. The streams from Dan and Csesarea-Philippi unite about 
four miles south of the former, and flow through a marshy plain 
into a little triangular-shaped lake called Hutch by the Arabs. 
The name is evidently a corruption of the Oulatha of Josephus 
{Ant., xv. 10, 3). The lake is the Merom of the Bible, near 
which Joshua gained one of his greatest victories over the 
Canaanites (Josh. xi. 5) ; and somewhere close to its western 
shore we must look for the site of the long-lost Hazor, the 
capital and stronghold of the Canaanites in northern Palestine. 
When travelling through this district iu 1874 I observed a 
large scarped mound, like a citadel, with traces of ancient 
ruins upon and around it, and the small village of Waggas 
near it. It lies on the lowlands, about four miles south-west 
of the lake, and it may probably be the site of Hazor. That 
city could scarcely have stood, as some suppose, on the top of 
the mountain-ridge to the west, for Jabin, king of Hazor in 
Joshua’s time, and his successor Jabin in the days of Barak, 
had large forces of chariots, which could not have been used 
among the rugged mountains (Josh. xi. G — 10; Judges iv. 2, 
scr/.). 
5. Soon after emerging from the lake the Jordan is spanned 
by Jisr Bendt-Yahib, “the bridge of Jacob’s daughters,” 
over which runs the ancient caravan road that once connected 
Egypt and Western Palestine with Damascus. Below the 
bridge the river enters a wild ravine, down which it rushes in 
a series of foaming rapids to the Sea of Galileo, falling about 
700 feet in eight miles. 
The Sea of Galilee. 
G. The Sea of Galilee is egg-shaped, about twelve miles long 
by eight wide. The great depression, and the general contour 
of the cavity in which it lies, givo it the appearance of a 
