At the entrance of this plain, which is, properly speaking, the country of Gennesareth, there is the miserable village of _Medjdel_.

At the other extremity of the plain (always following the sea), we come to the site of a town (_Khan-Minyeh_), with very beautiful streams (_Ain-et-Tin_), a pretty road, narrow and deep, cut out of the rock, which Jesus often traversed, and which serves as a passage between the plain of Gennesareth and the northern slopes of the lake.

A quarter of an hour's journey from this place, we cross a stream of salt water (_Ain-Tabiga_), issuing from the earth by several large springs at a little distance from the lake, and entering it in the midst of a dense mass of verdure.

At last, after a journey of forty minutes further, upon the arid declivity which extends from Ain-Tabiga to the mouth of the Jordan, we find a few huts and a collection of monumental ruins, called _Tell-Houm_.
Five small towns, the names of which mankind will remember as long as those of Rome and Athens, were, in the time of Jesus, scattered in the space which extends from the village of Medjdel to Tell-Houm.

Of these five towns, Magdala, Dalmanutha, Capernaum, Bethsaida, and Chorazin,[1] the first alone can be found at the present time with any certainty.