 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...also that lies over against this lake hath the same name of Gennegareth ; its nature is wonderful aa well as its beauty ; its soil is so fruitful that all sorts of treed can grow upon it, and the inhnbitants, accordingly, plant all sorts of trees there ; for the... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - 1890 - 90 pages
...elicit from him the following testimony: — The soil Is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow on it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts...there, for the temper of the air is so well mixed th.it it agrees very well with their several varieties. Wainuts, which require the coldest air. particularly... | |
 | 1892 - 734 pages
...this lake hath the same name of Gennesareth ; its nature is wonderful, as well as its beauty. Its coil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it. One may I Midrath Conen quoted in Amude Sketfi. ' Jalltut Ptalm, § 697. 3 Num. xniv. Gff ; Joshua... | |
 | Isaac Errett - 1893 - 396 pages
...to, is seldom quoted, and we think it worth while, for the sake of many readers, to transcribe it : Its nature is wonderful, as well as its beauty. Its...inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts of trees there ; for Ihe temper of the air is so very well mixed that it agrees very well with those several sorts ; particularly... | |
 | Peter von Finkelstein Mamreov, Anna F. Mamreov, B. A. F. Mamreov - 1895 - 734 pages
...left their impress on its inhabitants. Josephus describes this portion of the country as land "whose soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it, and the inhabitants can raise all kinds upon it. The temper of the air is so well mixed that it agrees very well with all... | |
 | Edward Payson Tenney - 1897 - 620 pages
...delighted to dwell upon the peculiar charms of this home by the Galilean sea. " Its nature," he says, "is wonderful as well as its beauty; its soil is so...agrees very well with those several sorts. Particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty ; there are palm trees also,... | |
 | John MacGregor - 1904 - 478 pages
...river Jordan. " The country also that lies over against this lake hath the same name of Gcnnesareth ; its nature is wonderful, as well as its beauty; its...agrees very well with those several sorts, particularly walnuts, which require the coldest air, flourish there in vast plenty; there are palm-trees also, which... | |
 | Henry Baker Tristram - 1911 - 542 pages
...Josephus thus describes Gennesaret :—" The soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow on it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts...air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with their several sorts. Walnuts, which require the coldest air, particularly flourish there in vast plenty... | |
 | Henry Baker Tristram - 1911 - 542 pages
...Josephus thus describes Gennesaret :—" The soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow on it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts...air is so well mixed, that it agrees very well with their several sorts. Walnuts, which require the coldest air, particularly flourish there in vast plenty... | |
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1927 - 362 pages
...people and a land never "destitute of men of courage or of a large population." About the lake the land is "so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it ... for the temper of the air is so well mixed that it agrees very well with different sorts" — especially... | |
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The country also that lies over against this lake hath the same name of Gennesareth; its nature is wonderful as well as its beauty; its soil is so fruitful that all sorts of trees can grow upon it, and the inhabitants accordingly plant all sorts of trees... 
