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Joshua', were severally deposited. If any chap. 
thing" connected with the memory of past ages > .»- / 
be calculated to awaken local enthusiasm, the 
land around this city is pre-eminently entitled 
to that distinction. The sacred story of 
events transacted in the fields of Sichem^ is, 
from our earliest years, remembered with 
delight ; but having the territory actually before 
our eyes where those events took place, and 
beholding objects as they were described above 
three thousand years ago, the grateful impres- 
sion kindles into ecstacy. Along the valley, 
we beheld " a company of Ishmeelites, coming 
from Gilead'^" as in the days of Reuben and 
JuDAH, " with their camels bearing spicery 
and balm and myrrh," who would gladly have 
purchased another Joseph of his brethren, and 
conveyed him, as a slave, to some Potiphar in 
Egypt '^ Upon the hills around, flocks and 
(7) " Joshua, the son of iVwra, the servant of the Lord, died 
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Thnnath-serah, 
which is in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash." 
Ibid. ver. 29, 30. 
(g) See Genesis, xxxvii. 
(9) " And, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from GUeml, 
with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry 
it down to Egypt." Ibid. v. 25. 
(10) Ibid. ver. 36. 
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