...less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers,...from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighboring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate,...

...appear less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers,...concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all ,spt'ak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the narrative of its deceitful allurements •and...

...less remote than they really are*. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke which, by some writers, are...from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any aeighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate,...

...who visited this extraordinary lake in his travels through the Holy Land in the year 1801, says, " Every thing about it was in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related of it." 58 It has been doubted by sohie...

...nearly nineteen. A profound silence, awful as death, hangs over the lake : and " its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related concerning it by die inhabitants of the country, who аЦ speak of it with terror."4 3. The Great Seer, mentioned in...

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...less remote than they really are. The atmosphère was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some writers, are said to exhale from the surface of the lake, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it wag in the highest degree grand...

...less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke, which, by some .writers, are said to exhale from the surface of Lake Ast phaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest degree,...

...less remote than they really are. The atmosphere was remarkably clear and serene ; but we saw none of those clouds of smoke which, by some writers, are said -to exhale from the surface of the lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest...

...evaporation with sulphureous vapours, is fatal to vegetation. The coast is rocky and desolate, and well suited to the tales related concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who speak of it with terror. It was once, as we learn from the Old Testament, a fertile well watered plain,...