ABSTRACT
Passing out of Tiberias through a breach in the wall close to the shore of the lake, the road skirts that shore for some distance, running north-west. Mejdel or Migdal is the first village to be reached, one of the most beautifully situated in the whole of Palestine, the red-roofed villas close by a wood on a little height on the left of the road and the orange, palm and banana groves on the opposite side spreading down to the lake. South-west of Mejdel, away from the road, is the Arab village of Irbid, the ancient Arbela or Beth-Arbel of Hosea. Roman ruins are still extant. For centuries the ruined site of Acre remained a desolation. A short distance before the city is reached, but some little distance away on the right, the Agricultural Experimental Station and the Stud Farm of the Government are passed.
