The wireless apparatus connected with it can talk with Paris and Calcutta.

From the top you feel as if you were seeing "all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time." There are no other buildings to cut off the view or tamper with perspective.

The Dead Sea was growing dark.

The Moab Hills beyond it looked lonely and savage in silhouette.
"Down there on your left is Jericho," said Grim.

"That winding creek beyond it is the Jordan.