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prepared to take their nap, and, having stretched ^^^,^^- 
themselves upon the same carpets which had < — , — - 
served for their dinner-tables, fell fast asleep. 
Here, on this plain', the most fertile part of all Piain of 
t^e land of Canaan^, (which, though a solitude. 
(1) Called, by way of eminence, "The great Plain," Mtya 
nsS('«v: in Scripture, and elsewhere, the ^' great Plain, or Field, of 
Esdraelo7i," the " Field of Meg id do," the" Galilaan Plain." It was 
afterwards called the " Plain of Saba." " Et adverte," says Brocardos 
*' quod campus iste Magedo, Esdrelon, et planicies GalilecE sunt fere unus 
et idem campus : sed namina ilia hodie omnia in ohlivioncm ahieruntt 
vocaturquc campus Saha." (Vid. Terr. Sanct. Descript. p. 307- Nov. 
Orb. Reg. &c. Basil, 1537.) It is often written £*</reZo7i, according 
to Brocardus ; but we found the name still in use in the country, and 
pronounced Esdraelon, accorAm^ to the manner in which the Greeks^ 
and particularly Ecsebujs, modified the name of the city Jezreel, 
whence the plain derived its appellation. " Eusebius, ad vocem 
'litr^a-AX, scribitesse vicum nomine 'Ea-S^ariXav, h tu (ji.iya.Xu trsS/y xitfA.ir/,t." 
(<Iteland. Palast. lib. i. c. 55. Utrecht, 1714.) " As the name Jezreel 
became J?*rf;rte/rt among the Greeks, (ffills's Hist.Gcog. vol. I. />. 339. 
Orf. 1801.) so the adjoining plain is thence still denoted by the name 
of the Plain of Esdraelon." This plain is the Armageddon of the 
Apocalypse: {P'id. Quaresmii Eluc. T.S. lib. v'n. c. 4.) "And he 
gathered them together, into a place called, in the Hebrew tongue, 
Armageddon." Ch. xvi. v. 16". 
(2) " Glebaejus optima est, fertilis supra modum in frumento, vino, 
et oleo, atque adeb rebus omnibus affluit, ut qui suisoculis aliquando 
tconspexerunt, affirment sese nihil unquam perfectius, et in quod na- 
tura aequ^ omnia sua contulisset, aspexisse." Adrichom.. Theat. Terr. 
Sanct. p. 35. Colon. 1628. " Cette campagne est la plus fertile et la 
plus heureuse pour Ics pasturages de toute la Terre Saincte, et porte- 
roit de tr^s beaux grains, eten abondance, comme uos meillures terras 
de France, sielle estoit cultiv6e." Douldan Voy, de la Tsrre Saincte, 
p. 57 p. Pnr. 1657. 
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