Numbers 34:3

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

Ver. 3. Then your south quarter shall be.] Judea was not above two hundred miles long, and fifty miles broad; not near the half of England by much, but far more fertile, called, therefore, Sumen totius orbis. And yet England is, for good cause, counted the western granary; the garden of God, whose valleys are like Eden, whose hills are as Lebanon, whose springs are as Pisgah, whose rivers are as Jordan, whose walls is the ocean, whose defence is the Lord Jehovah. a

a Speed's Hist.