down a steep place At Kerzaor Gersa, "where there is no precipice running sheer to the sea, but a narrow belt of beach, the bluff behind is so steep, and the shore so narrow, that a herd of swine rushing frantically down, must certainly have been overwhelmed in the sea before they could recover themselves." Tristram's Land of Israelp. 462.

the sea This, as we have seen above (Mark 3:7), was one of the names, by which the Lake of Gennesaret was called.

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