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plain of 'akka.
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distance northward, that of Kana-el-Jelil; each of which, but
with more probability the latter, 1 has been regarded as the
place of our Saviour's first miracle.
Features of the The well-known conical Mount Tabor, the Jebel Tur of the
country. Arabs, is the highest in this part of Galilee, and its rounded
slopes are richly clothed with the valonia oak, besides fine
myrtles, the wild pistachio, and other shrubs, which partly
cover the ruins on the summit. The elevation of this mount
above the base at the village of Dabura (Debora) probably
exceeds a thousand feet, and the view from thence is both
extensive and pleasing. To the north is the mount of Beati
tudes, with the snowy peak of Jebel-es-Sheikh, the greater
Hermon and the highest of the Lebanon range towering above
in the distance. Eastward are the low mountains extending
from Tabariyeh along the western side of the Jordan, with the
blue ranges of the Haouran beyond. On the other side of the
plain of Esdraelon, towards the south and south-west, is
little Hermon, with the range of Gilboa rising to 1000 feet;
beyond these are the wooded mountains of Ebal and Gerizim,
with the lower parts of Carmel more westward ; and finally,
in the latter direction the sea is seen through the range which
bounds the plain of Akka.
Productions of The latter is partly of sand and partly cultivated, and ex-
'Akka lain of tends from the bay of Kai'pha northward, between the moun
tains and the sea, as far as the Tyrian ladder. 2 Beyond this
precipitous tongue of land it is renewed, and is almost con
tinuous from thence, by Tyre and Sidon, to the limits of the
district near Beirut. Its width seldom exceeds three miles,
and it is thinly peopled, though the cultivated spots yield ample
returns of tobacco, cotton, hemp, grain, and fruits ; the rest of
the district is mountainous.
Northward of the river Kasmieh, the offsets of Jebel-el-
Drus cover the districts of El Schomar and El Teffahh, which
present a succession of ridges one above another till they ter
minate with the rugged peaks of Jebel-el-Drus itself. The
flanks of these offsets, for the most part, display scattered
1 Biblical Researches in Palestine, by Dr. Robinson, vol. III., pp. 204, 208.
2 A road cut in the side of an almost perpendicular cliff, whose summit is
several hundred feet above the sea.