Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . e * with surprise to see some of the best men of Englandlabouring to promote the colonisation of Jews in Palestine, and that underexisting governments. The Jews are precisely the last people on earth fittedfor such an enterprise, as they are a nation of traffickers, and know nothingof agriculture. It would be worth while also for the Christian philanthropistto inquire whether the probabilities in favour of their conversion to Christi-anity would be multiplied by this re

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Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . e * with surprise to see some of the best men of Englandlabouring to promote the colonisation of Jews in Palestine, and that underexisting governments. The Jews are precisely the last people on earth fittedfor such an enterprise, as they are a nation of traffickers, and know nothingof agriculture. It would be worth while also for the Christian philanthropistto inquire whether the probabilities in favour of their conversion to Christi-anity would be multiplied by this restoration to their father-land, where athousand circumstances would perpetually remind them of the glorious daysof their nation and its religion. And surely the form of Christianity, whicha Jew may behold in Jerusalem, is not such as can ever win him to forsakethe cherished faith of his fathers. * Dr. Olin. 436 SYRIA AND THE HOLY LAND. CHAPTER XXXI. Countries East of the Jordan. The countries between the Jordan and the Desert were those first con-quered by the Israelites before the subjugation of the Land of Canaan, and. Jerash. General View, were allotted to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manas-seh. They are comparatively little known to Europeans, having been rarelyvisited by travellers, until the discoveriesmade by Seetzen ofthe ruins of Jerash andof Amman (Philadel-phia) in the ancientDecapolis. It is true, that, in point of histo-rical interest, they areinferior to the countrieswest of the Jordan ;but, on the other hand, they are pre-eminentfor the multiplicity and Splendour Of their an- Ancient Tomb at Amman. cient remains. At Oom Keis, for instance—the ancient name of which in all probability