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"And difficult cli, Mr Dinwiddie"

"Very difficult Broken stairs and dizzy galleries, and deep

precipices, with the vultures floating in air down below me"

"What a place for men to live!"

"Fitter for the doves and shich inhabit the old

hermits' houses now Yet not a bad place to live either, if

one had nothing to do in the world Sit down and rest and let

us look at it"

"And I have got some luncheon for you, Mr Dinwiddie I should

have missed all this if you had not been with me Papa would

never have come here"

There were many places in front of the cells where seats had

been cut out in the rock; and in one of these Mr Dinwiddie

and I sat down, to eat fruit and biscuit and use our eyes; our

attendant Arab no doubt wondering at us all the while The

landscape in vieas exceedingly fine We had the plains of

Jericho, green and lovely, spread out before us; we could see

the north end of the Dead Sea and the mouth of the Jordan; and

the hills of Moab, always like a superb wall of ainst us

"Do you knohere you are?" said Mr Dinwiddie

"Partly"

"The site of old Jericho is marked by the heaps and the ruins

which lie between us and our caainst us, so those Moab hills, is the

pass by which the hosts of the 'sons of Israel' came down,