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II. Going up to Jerusalem 23 III. The Gates of Zion 45 IV. Mizpah and the Mount of Olives 67 V. An Excursion to Bethlehem and Hebron 83 VI. The Temple and the Sepulchre 105 VII. Jericho and Jordan 125 VIII. A Journey to Jerash 151 IX. The Mountains of Samaria 191 X. Galilee and the Lake 217 XI. The Springs of Jordan 259 XII. The Road to Damascus 291

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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TRAVELLERS' JOY

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INVITATION

Who would not go to Palestine?

To look upon that little stage where the drama of

humanity has centred in such unforgetable scenes; to trace the rugged paths and ancient highways along which so many heroic and pathetic figures have travelled; above all, to see with the eyes as well as with the heart

"Those holy fields
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet
Which, nineteen hundred years ago, were nail'd
For our advantage on the bitter cross"—

for the sake of these things who would not travel far and endure many hardships?

It is easy to find Palestine. It lies in the south-east corner of the Mediterranean coast, where the "sea in the midst of the nations," makes a great elbow between Asia Minor and Egypt. A tiny land, about a hundred and fifty miles long and

sixty miles wide, stretching in a fourfold band from the foot of snowy Hermon and the Lebanons