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43_298 Ram-allah to Megiddo, gently through wheat fields to olive groves and vineyards with a village near the top of the hill. One can hear cocks crowing through the lazy air and villagers singing. [f]. p. 304. And so we go on once more and pass through the vale of wheat fields and pasture lands, lying like a great flattish bowl in the hiils, not a tree or habitation in it - save only at the eastern end, above the valley level a bit, there is a low dwelling hidden, nearly, by olive and big trees and stone walls. And so we go on again - and come suddenly out of the hills at Jenim on the edge of the great plain of Eddraelon - Jenim compaacted like a [nut] with streets so narrow our truck |
43_299 Palestine, Apr. 4, 1926 can hardly get through and then at once out into broad lonely places again. - But we stop in Genim a moment for water - at the spring which flows like a young river from the rock - telling the story of every town why it is in that place. And now we run across the great plain by a wagon track, following the western side to the Tell of Megiddo - a striking old hill-town site - made by humans, this Tell, says Higgins, rising boldly on the edge of the plain and lying on the very foot of the hillslope. On the lower terrace the Megiddo Expedition had built a square, consisting of living quarters for the staff, laboratories and workrooms for the care, study and records of the excavations to be made |
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