Litchfield Enquirer

GALILEE.
This country would be a Paradise, were it inhabited by an industrious people under an enlightened government. Vine stocks are to be seen here a foot and a half in diameter, forming by their joining branches, vast arches & extensive ceilings of verdure. A cluster of grapes, two or three feet in length, will give an abundant supper to a whole family. The plains of Esdraelon are occupied by Arab tribes, around whose brow tents the sheep and lambs gambol to the sound of the reed, which at night calls them home.—Ed. Cabinet Library, No. 4.

GENERAL ASPECT OF PALESTINE.
The hills stand round about Jerusalem as they stood in the days of David and of Solomon. The dew falls on Hermon, the cedars grow on Lebanon, and Kishon, that ancient river, draws its stream from Tabor as in the times of old. The Sea of Galilee still presents the same natural accompaniments. The fig tree springs up by the wayside, the sycamore spreads its branches, and the vines and olives still climb the sides of the mountains. The desolation which covered the cities of the plain is not less striking at the present hour than when Moses with an inspired pen recorded the judgment of God; the swellings of Jordan are not less regular in their rise than when the Hebrews first approached its banks, and he who goes down from Jerusalem to Jericho, still incurs the greatest hazard of falling among thieves. There is, in fact, in the scenery and manners of Palestine. a perpetuity that accords with the everlasting importance of its records, and which enables us to identify with the utmost readiness, the local imagery of every great transaction.— Ibid.