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Title: The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Thomson, William McClure, 1806-1894
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y ravens ? The name favors the opinion, but not so the situation.It is far from the prophets usual abode, and in returningback again to Sarepta he would be obliged to pass throughthe kingdom of his enemy, which would certainly be a longand critical journey. The brook itself, however, is admira-bly adapted to the purpose for which Elijah retired to it,and there come sailing down the tremendous gorge a fam-ily of ravens to remind us that Grod can feed his people bymeans the most unlikely. And now for your inquiriesabout the Dead Sea. They refer rather to the south end of it, and concern par-ticularly the location of the cities of the plain which weredestroyed. All agree that Sodom and her associated townswere around the south end of this sea, and since the explo-ration of Lynch and others it has appeared very probablethat the shallow part, which is some fifteen miles long, wasoriginally a plain on which the cities stood, and that thisplain was submerged at the time they were overthrown.
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PLAIN OF SODOM—ANCIENT FERTILITY OF IT. 461 Admitting this to be true, or at least probable, how are weto understand what is said of the fertility of that region inthe time when Lot chose it for his residence ? It was wellwatered every where before the Lord destroyed Sodom andGomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land ofEgypt as thou comest unto Zoar.^ Lot resided at the southend of the Dead Sea, and it seems to be implied that theland there belonged to the valley of the Jordan, was water-ed by that river, and that therefore it was immensely fertile.And such, I think, was the fact. The Eiver Jordan be-gins in the valleys of Hermou, and terminates in this sea,and it is my opinion that, until the destruction of Sodom, thiswas a fresh-water lake, and that its character was changedat that time by the obtrusion from below of rock salt andother volcanic products, which have rendered it so extreme-ly bitter and nauseous. The evidences of such action andobtrusion are to be seen

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