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200 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,are in a small hamlet, neariy at the bottom Of the hill, in theplain of Esdraelon, called Debora.The place of transfigurationof our Saviour, according to the authority of St. Jerome,was pointed out to me in my ascent.I was amply repaid for my labour by the scene presentedto me from the summit of the mountain ; this is flat, includesa plain of about a mile and a half in circumference, wheremuch of the walls and towers built by Josephus still remainin massy ruin *.The extraordinary shape of Mount Tabor is best observedfrom its summit, whence it appears quite isolated from therest of the country, like a truncated cone^, of a considerableheight above the neighbouring mountains.These are laiddown by Pococke thus: those of Engedda and Samaria tothe south; to the north-east Mount Hermon, beneath whichlayrNain and Endor.To the north are the'mountains ofGilboah, so fatal to Saul, and of the Beatitudes, where ourSaviour's sermon was delivered to the multitude, and nearwhich the multitude were miraculously fed.The sea of Tiberiasis clearly discovered towards the north-east, terminatedby Mount Hermon, covered with perpetual snow.MountCarmel is to the south-west, arid conceals the Mediterraneanfrom view,• See chapter vi. book iv. Wars of the Jews."ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ