RAINFALL IS RETURNING TO PALESTINE AND THE HOLY LAND IS REGAINING ITS BIBLICAL FERTILITY SIR CHARLES MARSTON, FAMOUS ARCHAEOLOGIST REPORTED TODAY.
EXCAVATIONS, RESUMED NOV. 20 FOR THE FIFTH WINTER, TESTIFY AGAIN TO THE RETURN OF RAINFALL TO THE PARCHED AND DESOLATE’ SOIL OF THE HOLY LAND, SAID SIR CHARLES, WRITING IN THE EVENING STANDARD ON HIS OPERATIONS AT THE SITE OF THE BIBLICAL CITY OF LACHISH.
“NATURE THERE IS BECOMING MORE BENEFICENT AND IT LOOKS AS IF THE SOIL AGAIN IS BECOMING FERTILE AND FRUITFUL AS IN THE BIBLE DAYS,” HE ASSERTED. DRIED RIVER BEDS TESTIFY TO A FORMER ABUNDANCE OF WATER. A BRIDGE BUILT BY THE MARSTON EXPEDITION ACROSS A WADI (STREAM WHICH RUNS ONLY IN THE RAINY SEASON) WAS SWEPT IN THE AUTUMN BY FLOODS, HE SAID.
THE SYSTEM OF EXCAVATION USED BY THE EXPEDITION–LAYING DAMP HEAPS IN TERRACES ON THE SIDE OF THE MOUND–CONVERTED THE HILL INTO AN OASIS FOR CULTIVATION OF FIRST-CLASS TOMATOES, HE SAID.
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