Gergesa

"=Gerasa, identified with the modern Khersa, "over against" "Galilee," close to the lake. This was probably the scene of the" "miracle, Mark 5:1-20, etc. "From the base of the great plateau" "of Bashan, 2,000 feet or more overhead, the ground slopes down" "steeply, in places precipitously, to the shore. And at the foot" of the declivity a bold spur runs out to the water's edge. By it the frantic swine would rush on headlong into the lake and "perish." Porter's Through Samaria. (See [235]GADARA.)"