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A few examples will serve to illustrate the foregoing re- 
marks. The subject of “ Gralilee in the time of Christ ” has 
for some years engaged the attention of a well-known American 
theologian, himself a traveller in the Holy Land. In the last 
edition of his work, bearing the date of 1881, it is stated that 
“ the boundary line of this province, so explicitly laid down by 
Josephus ( Wars, iii. o, 1) is lost to us, as well as the line 
dividing between Upper and Lower Galilee.” Allow me, 
in reply, to expound very briefly this passage of Josephus by 
the light of the Maps before you, reserving a fuller argument 
for a more ample opportunity. 
Josephus says, in substance, that the two G-alilees are 
bounded by the territory of Ptolemais and by Carmel, 
by Samaria and Scythopolis, as far as the River Jordan ; 
its northern parts by Tyre and the country of the 
Tyrians ; — that Lower Gralilee extends from Tiberias to 
Zebulon, and of the maritime places Ptolemais is its neigh- 
bour ; its breadth is from Xaloth, in the Great Plain, to 
Bersabe. The extent of Upper Galilee is also taken from 
Bersabe as far as Baca, which divides Galilee from the land 
of the Tyrians ; and in the other direction it has Melloth 
on the one side, and Thella, near to Jordan, on the other. 
How, the Map displays Ptolemais or the modern St. Jean 
d'Acre, at the northern end of the Bay of Acre, in the midst of 
the maritime plain which extends from the Tyrian Ladders on 
the north to Carmel on the south, a distance of twenty miles. 
The plain is bounded on the east by the highlands of Upper 
and Lower Galilee, and its width varies from four to eight miles. 
Now Josephus defines the limit of both Galilees in this direction 
by the strong city of Zebulon, and a place called Meloth. 
On the summits of a hill overhanging the Plain of Acre at 
the present moment is a place still partly fortified, bearing 
the name of 'Abellin, in which both Van de Velde and Guerin 
find the obvious trace of the Hebrew Zebulon. Further north, 
in Upper Galilee, is the present village of Malia, on a summit 
that forms a part of the culminating line of heights that divide 
the slope which descends westward to the maritime plain from 
the edge of the high plateau of Upper Galilee, that spreads out 
its very varied surface to the eastward. This Malia was a 
noted place of strength in the time of the Crusaders, and 
corresponds well both in name and situation with the Mel- 
loth of Josephus. Further north, Josephus names Baca as a 
locality marking the frontier between Upper Galilee and the 
country of the Tyrians. If we proceed from Malia along 
the culminating line that divides the western slope from the 
interior plateau, we arrive at length at the Wady el Bakk, 
