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Rh lies like a large loose stone in the midst of the valley. It is of a red garnet colour, the hardness of flint and is nigh about six yards square; and there is twelve openings in it, whence the water gushed out for the thirty nine years supply of the Hebrews, and the stone is worn where the water had run down.

Hermon, is a mountain on the north-east of the Holy Land, beyond Jordan, a little southward of Lebanon. The dew that falls upon it is beautiful and fine: In a summer evening it will wet one to the skin, and yet is in no danger in sleeping at night, as we were told, in the open fields. The snow lies on it most part of the summer, and was anciently carried from thence to Tyre, that the people there might drink their wine in frisco.— Gilboa, the mountain noted for the defeat of the Hebrews, and the slaughter of Saul and his three sons, lies about sixty miles north of Jerusalem; and though David in his elegy, wished its wonted fertility turued into barreness and drought, yet we were assured that dew falls on it, as well as on other places.

Jeruealem lies about 25 miles westward of Jordan, and about 42 east of the Mediterranean Sea, 90 miles south of Damascus, 300 miles south of Aleppe, and 230 miles north-east of Grand Cairo in