During the afternoon of 30 October 1855 Hunt and James Graham explored the source of the River Jordan at the southern end of Lake Tiberias. Hunt spent an hour making 'a hasty sketch of the stream under the Sun as it runs into the land' (MS. diary, John Rylands Library, University of Manchester). He reflected: 'never was lake so lovely in its tracts of creamy calmness and brilliant lapis luzula and reflections of the amethyst Mountains above' (MS. ibid.).