II. The following are the principal Dimensions of Pal´es-tine:
1. Ca´naan, or western Pal´es-tine, has an area of about 6,600 square miles, a little less than Massachusetts.
2. Pal´es-tine Proper, the domain of the Twelve Tribes, embraces 12,000 square miles, about the area of Massachusetts and Connecticut.
3. The Coast Line, from Ga´za, the southernmost town, to Tyre, on the north, is not far from 140 miles long.
4. The Jor´dan is distant from the coast at Tyre about 25 miles; and the Dead Sea, in a line due east from Ga´za, about 60 miles.
5. The Jor´dan Line, from Dan, one of the sources of the Jor´dan, to the southern end of the Dead Sea, is 155 miles.
III. The most important Waters of Pal´es-tine are:
1. The Med-i-ter-ra´ne-an Sea, which bounds the land on the west (Josh. 1. 4; Exod. 23. 31; Deut. 11. 24).
2. The River Jor´dan, rising in three sources in Mount Her´mon, and emptying into the Dead Sea in a direct line 105 miles long, but by its windings over 200 miles (Deut. 9. 1; Josh. 4. 1; 2 Sam. 17. 22).
3. Lake Me´rom, now called Hu´leh, a triangular sheet of water, 3 miles across, in a swamp in northern Gal´i-lee (Josh. 11. 5).