The Jordan at Dan
The Jordan at Dan From the western base of Tell El-Kady bursts forth one of the largest fountains in Syria, and what is said to be the largest single fountain in the world. Its waters form a miniature lake, and then dashing through an oleander thicket and across the plain southward a deep, rapid river. This is called the “lower springs of Jordan.” On the eastern side of the mound is a smaller fountain, which springs up within the tell and flows off through a break in the rim on the southwest, and foaming down the bank joins its sister. This is the principal source of the Jordan. “Just at this break stands a noble oak and a terebinth, whose branches are hung with votive offerings of all sorts of rubbish, as Israel of old set up their altars under the great trees and in the groves of high places” The fountain springing from the western side of the mound is supposed to be where the drainage of the southern side of Hermon, pent up between a hard and a soft stratum,...