The Holy Land and the Bible; . The whole of Wady Kelt is singularly wild and romantic, for it issimply a deep rent in the mountains, scarcely twenty yards across atthe bottom, filled with tall canes and beds of rushes, to which you lookdown over high perpendicular walls of rock. Its cliffs are full of cavesof ancient hermits ; and the ruins of the small Monastery of St. Johnnestle beneath a lofty dark precipice on its north side. At this place,a fine aqueduct, leading oft the waters of a great spring, crosses thewady bv what has been a splendid bridge seventy feet high, and runson for three mi

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The Holy Land and the Bible; . The whole of Wady Kelt is singularly wild and romantic, for it issimply a deep rent in the mountains, scarcely twenty yards across atthe bottom, filled with tall canes and beds of rushes, to which you lookdown over high perpendicular walls of rock. Its cliffs are full of cavesof ancient hermits ; and the ruins of the small Monastery of St. Johnnestle beneath a lofty dark precipice on its north side. At this place, a fine aqueduct, leading oft the waters of a great spring, crosses thewady bv what has been a splendid bridge seventy feet high, and runson for three miles and three-quarters to the opening of the Jerichoplain. White chalk hills rise in the wildest shapes on each side, form-ing strange peaks, sharp rough sierras, and fanciful pyramid-like cones;the whole seamed in all directions by deep torrent beds. Not a tree isto be seen on the bare slopes. Nor is the end of the pass less strik-ing, for it is guarded, as it were, by two tall sloping peaks of white 1 1 Kings xvil. 2 Nahal..