text:  The Decapolis was a small and remote mountain district of Palestine not larger in proportion to the Roman than Morayshire is in proportion to the British empire; yet it contained as its name indicates and as their remains still attest _ten cities_ the least considerable of which Gebora contains as Buckingham tells us in his _Travels beyond the Jordan_ the ruins of more sumptuous edifices than any city in the British islands London itself not excepted can now boast