CLARKE $ TRAVELS, 
Vadanced, our journey led through an open campaign country, 
until, upon our right, the guides showed us the Mount where 
it is believed that Christ preached to his disciples that memora¬ 
ble sermon, # Concentrating the sum and substance of every 
Christian virtue. We left our route to visit this elevated spot; 
and having attained the highest point of it, a view was present¬ 
ed, which, for its" grandeur, independently of the interest ex¬ 
cited by the different objects contained in it, has no parallel io 
the Holy Land.f ’ 
From this situation we perceived that the plain, over which 
we had been, so long riding, was itself very elevated. Far be¬ 
neath appeared other plains, ode lower than the other, in that 
regular gradation concerning which observations w ere recently 
made, and extending to the surface of the Sea of Tiberias, or 
Sea of Galilee.j; This immense lake, almost equal, in the 
grandeur of its appearance, to that of Geneva, spreads its wa¬ 
ters over all the lowerterritory, extending from the northeast 
toward the southwest, and then bearing east of us.§ Its eastern 
shores present a sublime scene of mountains, extending toward 
the north and south, and seeming to dose it in at either extremi¬ 
ty ; both towar dCjfc&razm, where the Jordan enters; and the 
Axtlon, or campus ma^nus, through which it flows to the Dead 
Sea. The cultivated plains reaching to its borders, which we 
* Matthew, cb. v. v: vii. 
t This hill is called Kernel-Hntin in Pocqcke’s Travels, signifying “ f/ie Horns of 
Butin ” there'being,aumount at the east and west end of it.; and so’ called from the 
village below, which he writes Butin, We wrote it, as it was pronounced, Haiti. 
Vo cock e has enumerated the objects he beheld from this spot, in a note to p, 67. part 
I. of the second volume of his Description of the East. To the southwest I saw 
,/ebelSejar. extending to Sephor; Ehniham was mentioned to the south of it: 1 saw 
the tops of Carmel, then Jebcl Turin , near the plain of Zabulan , which extends to 
Jabel Butin. Beginning at the northwest, and going to the northeast, X saw Jebel 
Igermick, about which they named to me these places, Sekeenen , Elbany -, Sejour , Nah, 
Jtarneh, Major, Oradtf Tremit, Kcbresiad ; and further east, on other hills, Meirom 
Tokin on a hill, and Nouesy ; directly north of Hutin is Saphet ; and to the east of 
the hill on which that city stands, Kan Tehar and Kan Emmie were mentioned ; and 
to the north of the Sea of Tiberias l saw Jabelesheik.” 
t “ Mare appellatur; 'GiKl/Ca, quia in Galilaea provincia; mare Tiberiadis,£ cl\\- 
tate Tiberiadis ; mare Cenereth, ab oppido Cenereth , cui successit Tiberias ; stagnura 
Gmczareth. vel lacus Genezar , a propinqua regione Genezar.” Quaresmii Elucid. 
' Terr. Sahct. 1. vii. c. 2. p. 862. tom. II. Antv. 1369.)—“ Called always a sea,” says 
Fuller, “ by three of the evangelists, but generally a lake by St. Luke. Indeed, 
amongst lakes it may be accounted for a sea, such the greatness ; amongst seas, re¬ 
puted for a lake, such the sweetness and freshness of the water therein.” Fuller's 
Fisgahsight of F al&stirie, B. II, c. 6. p. 140. Lond. 1650. 
§ Its various names are cited in the preceding note St. Luke calls it the Lake of 
Gennesauth ; and this agrees with Pliny’s appellation, who, speaking of the River 
Jordan. (Hist. Nat. lib. v. c. 15, L. Bat. 1635 ) uses these words; “ In lacum se fun- 
dit , quern plures Genesarerji vacant xvi. mill pass, longitudinis, vi. mill. pass, latitvdi- 
nis, amcenis circumseptum oppidisS ’ H&; also notices the hot springs of Emmaus, 
near Tiberias Josephus (lib. iii. de Bell. Jud, c. 18.) gives it the same name as,Pliny ; 
which it derived from the appellation of the neighbouring district. (Ibid.) As to its 
dimensions, Josephus, (ibid. ) than whom , says Reland, “ nemo melius ea scirepotuitj* 
describes its length as equal to an hundred (Hegesippus, as 140) stadia; and its 
breadth as forty, its distance from the Lake Asphalites is Seventy-five miles. 
