ABSTRACT
The course of the Jordan Valley from Lake Huleh or the Waters of Merom to the Dead Sea is not a road like the other routes in Palestine the people have traced. The sources of the Jordan, as has already been mentioned, are outside of Palestine territory. From the effluence of the Jordan from Lake Huleh to its entry into Lake Tiberias there are ten miles in a straight line in the course of which the river falls 690 feet, running close to the mountains on the east and never more than four miles from those on the west. Opposite Beisan across the river is Pella, another of the cities of the Decapolis, with Dion the oldest Greek settlement in Eastern Palestine, possibly founded by Alexander’s soldiers. The original Pella in Macedon was the birthplace of Alexander the Great.
