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These two Galilees, of so great largeness, and encompassed with so
many nations of foreigners, have been always able to make a strong resistance
on all occasions of war; for the Galileans are inured to war from their
infancy, and have been always very numerous; nor hath the country been
ever destitute of men of courage, or wanted a numerous set of them; for
their soil is universally rich and fruitful, and full of the plantations
of trees of all sorts, insomuch that it invites the most slothful to take
pains in its cultivation, by its fruitfulness; accordingly, it is all cultivated
by its inhabitants, and no part of it lies idle. Moreover, the cities lie
here very thick, and the very many villages there are here are every where
so full of people, by the richness of their soil, that the very least of
them contain above fifteen thousand inhabitants.
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