4. The Sea of Gal´i-lee,[8] a pear-shaped lake, 14 miles long by 9 wide, and nearly 700 feet below the sea level. (Note other names in Josh. 13. 27; 11. 2; Luke 5. 1; John 6. 1.)
5. The Dead Sea, 47 miles long by 10 wide, and 1,300 feet below the sea level (Gen. 14. 3; Deut. 4. 49; Joel 2. 20).
IV. The land of Pal´es-tine lies in five Natural Divisions, nearly parallel:
1. The Maritime Plain, or sandy flat, extending along the Med-i-ter-ra´ne-an Sea, from 8 to 20 miles wide.
2. The Sheph´e-lah, or foothills, from 300 to 500 feet high and very fertile.
3. The Mountain Region, the backbone of the land, consisting of mountains from 2,500 to 4,000 feet high.
4. The Jor´dan Valley, a deep ravine, the bed of the river and its three lakes, from 500 to 1,200 feet below the level of the sea, and from 2 to 14 miles wide.
5. The Eastern Table-land, a region of lofty and precipitous mountains, from whose summit a plain stretches away to the A-ra´bi-an Desert on the east.
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