When the Prodigal traveled to "a far country," it is not likely that he went more than eighty or ninety miles.

Palestine is only from forty to sixty miles wide.

The State of Missouri could be split into three Palestines, and there would then be enough material left for part of another--possibly a whole one.

From Baltimore to San Francisco is several thousand miles, but it will be only a seven days' journey in the cars when I am two or three years older .-- [The railroad has been completed since the above was written.]--If I live I shall necessarily have to go across the continent every now and then in those cars, but one journey from Dan to Beersheba will be sufficient, no doubt.

It must be the most trying of the two.