Sharon

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 374

Sharon, the name of an extensive tract of plain and corn-land (partly under cultivation) in Palestine, lying between the sand-dunes of the coast and the foot-hills of the interior, and extending from the neighbourhood of Carmel on the north to near Joppa. The so-called Rose of Sharon is the subject of an article.

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