HAIFA

[s. 301] : Also called Caiffa; it is the Scaminium of St. Jerome, a seaport in Syria, situated at the foot of Mt. Carmel, 9 miles S. S. E. of Acre. It is the terminus of a railway from Damascus to There is a Gerthe coast through the Hauran. man colony and a colony of Ru ian Jews at this Population about 3,000. Station of the place. Jerusalem Verein (1891), with (1903) I mi ionary and his wife, 1 deacone , 1 place of worship, and Station also of the Jerusalem 1 village school. and the East Mi ion Fund; outstation of the (or CMS, the statistics being included in Acre HalK Hall, ’William N. Acca) also outstation of the London Jews Society, statistics being included with Safed.; 302