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Encyclopedia Britannica



BETHESDA

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 829 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BETHESDA , an urban
district
  of Carnarvonshire, N. Wales, 5 M. from Bangor, by a branch of the London & North-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 5281. It lies near the
lower
  end of the
fine Nant Ffrancon (valley of the Ogwen stream). The scriptural name is due, as often in Wales, to the
village
  or hamlet taking its title from the Nonconformist
church
 . Here are extensive slate quarries belonging to Lord
Penrhyn
 . A narrow-gauge railway connects these with Port
Penrhyn
 , at the mouth of the stream Cegid (hemlock, " cicuta "), which admits the entry of vessels of 300 tons to the quay at low water.
BETH-HORON (" the place of the hollow way "), the name of two neighbouring villages, upper and
lower
  Beth-horon, on the ascent from the
coast
  plain of Palestine to the high tableland of Benjamin, which was until the 16th
century
  the high road from Jerusalem to the sea. The two towns thus played a conspicuous
part
  in Israelitish military history (see Josh. x. to; 1 Sam. xiii. 18; 1 Kings ix. 17; 1 Mace. iii. 13-24, vii. 39 if., ix. 50). Josephus (Bell. Jud. ii. 19) tells of the rout of a Roman army under Cestius Gallus in A.D. 66. The
Talmud
  states that many rabbis were born in the place. It is now represented by
Beit
  'Ur-el-foka and
Beit
  'Ur-et-tahta.


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