Identifier: pictorialhistory01kitt (find matches)
Title: The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Kitto, John, 1804-1854
Subjects: Jews -- History Palestine -- History
Publisher: London C. Knight
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to their eager listeners of the country through whichthey had passed, was highly favourable, especially when regarded as proceeding from menwho had been br(mght up in one of the most fertile countries in the world. They describedit as a good land,— a land flowing with milk and honey. If tliis account of the land,accompanied by the sight of its pleasant fruits, excited the people to advance and take pos-session, their zeal was too speedily damped by the further account of the great stature,()strength, and courage of the inhabitants, and of the lofty position and strong fortifications oftheir cities. A recent traveller informs us that on coming from Arabia, where the villages are, for themost part, found in valleys, he was much struck by seeng the villages and towns of Palesfnestanding loftily upon the hills. The same circumstance seems to have been strongly remarked • Sec Ilomcv, pas.im. t Xum xid. 17—20. ; See the cut ;it tlie hi;\d o.this chapter. I Chap YT.) THE WANDERING. 309
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by the Hebrew spies ; and their furtherstatement respecting the strong walls ofthe towns, must be received with thelicence wliich results from the fact thatthey and their auditors were Bedouinsin their military habits and ideas, andthat to all such people the slightestappearance of a wall or fortification isregarded as an insurmountable obstacle.*Altliough we may well believe thatthe fears of the spies magnified thestature of the Canaanites, their impres-sion must have had some foundation infact. It is hence, and for other reasons,probable that the inhabitants of the land,or at least certain races among them,were taller, and possibly of larger buildthan either themselves or the Egyptians.As to the Egyptians, it appears from themummies, that they were generally alight, medium-sized people, with veryrare instances of a stature above themiddle-size, or of large-boned, or mus-cular men; and with respect to the Tlio walls of Graine (a small town at tlio headof the Persian Gulf), which were

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