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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Genesis, xiii:10.)--'And Lot lifted up his eyes
and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.' In
the above picture we have a view of a Bedouin village as it appears to-day, that stands in the very plain of Jordan that Lot
saw well watered everywhere. The waters from Elisha's Fountain, that have always been used to irrigate this plain, pass through
this village. It would be hard to conceive of a village with a more tumbled-down, wretched appearance than this, and the people
who live in the village are as degenerate looking and degraded as one would judge them to be from their place of abode. These
houses are seven or eight feet high, and are built of stone, and are then covered with thorny acacia trees. This is about
eight miles from the ancient site of Sodom and Gomorrrah." Copyright year and photographer's name are printed at the bottom
of the photograph, along with "Franklin Co Eng-Chi." See 5226BAI/LVi144CAJS (Voyager # 359459)
A group of Bedouin homes and tents
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