The Jews have long since disappeared from it, however.
Back yonder, an hour's journey from here, we passed through an Arab village of stone dry-goods boxes (they look like that,) where Noah's tomb lies under lock and key.

[Noah built the ark.] Over these old hills and valleys the ark that contained all that was left of a vanished world once floated.
I make no apology for detailing the above information.

It will be news to some of my readers, at any rate.
Noah's tomb is built of stone, and is covered with a long stone building.
Bucksheesh let us in.

The building had to be long, because the grave of the honored old navigator is two hundred and ten feet long itself! It is only about four feet high, though.

He must have cast a shadow like a lightning-rod.