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$ ** , !*** & th ^ a * through 0 * q ^ iqgs ; ^ | Ua , n » M ^ < ji « ifci fied summit form tfcg outljrte ^ Ufo fayja ^; i ^ flu t f ^ K , ^ ^ ITh ^ tlffpuntvPl » yc } 8 stones suddenl ' y a ^ d r ^ p ^ dlY down tf ftjf / fefP abyss caMea tne ^ Viney of jfehoshapljat , which se ^ aratW it frpro ^ ruaafern . K- 'dirii tkie bottom of this sombre arWTnarrbw' vatf e / ' the Garden sides of whidi are everywhere paved With ' " black antf white ^ Mti ^ flS funereal stones of death , —rises an immense bill , with so abrtrpt
atieteration that it resembles a fallen ram )> art ; no tree here strik e * ite rbbts ; no moss even can here fix its filaments ; the slope is so steep tbqfctatt earth and stones continually roll from it , and it presents to theeyeobN a surface of dry dust , as if powdered cinders had been thrown upon ( t from the heights of the city . Towards the middle of this hill , or natuntt rampart , rise high and strong walls of large stones , not externally sawed by the mason , which conceal their Hebrew and Roman fbundatidit
beneath the same ashes , and are here from fifty to one hundred s and further on from two to three hundred , feet in height . The waU& ^ afti : here cat by three city gates , two of which are fastened up , anil the only one open before us seems as void , and as desolate , as if it gave , entrance only to an uninhabited town . The walls , rising again beryotod thiar k * UV sustain a targe and vast terrace which runs along tw ^ -thfrdta of trfe knogtb of Jerusalem on the eastern side , and , judging by the eye * 'imy be a thousand feet in length , and five or six hundred in breadth , it-to
neatly level , except at its centre , where it sinks insensibly , as if to recml to the eye the Valley of Little Depth , which formerly separated itite hill of Sk > n froiw the city of Jerusalem . This magnificent platform * prepared no doubt by nature , but evidently finished by the hand of mats wa » the sublime pedestal upon which arose the Temple of Sojomon ; it nqv supports two Turkish mosques . * * * Beyond the plat *
form , the two mosques , and the site of the temple , the whole of Jerusalem is stretched before us , like the plan of a town in relief , spread by an } artist upon a table . * * Above all , amidst that ocean of bouses ^ that cloud of little domes which covers them , is a dark elliptical dome , larger than the others , overlooked by another and a white one ; ^ ift&SS ! are the churches of the Holy Sepulchre and of Calvary ; frorrllieni ^ they are confounded , and appear drowned in the immense labyrifttn' * # f domes , edifices , and streets which encompass them ; and otittAfttflii
difficult to credit such a situation for Calvary and tbe Sfepfclchfti * * * The view is the most splendid that can be precfcote& to the eye , of a city that is no more ; for she still seems ta . eptjttt * # Oft * full of life and youth ; but , on contemplating tlje scene with topff ^ 1 || g » tention , we feel that it is really no more than a fair vision of the citftlfif David and Solomon . No noise arises from her squares an 4 s ^ t ( ls no roads lead to her gates from the east or from the wett ^ ^* o ^ a the north or from the south , except a few paths winding' irriong tb ^ rc ^ M . on which you meet onl y half-naked Arabs , some chto& ^ iffihfa 'Friwn Damascus , or women irom Bethlehem or Jericho , c ^ rftftitf" Mh < hlflt
beads a basket of raisins from Engaddi , or a cagfe of flows ti ) W sold on tbe morrow under tbe tereoiMbuses beyond tb * ctty tpMb : m * * We spent some time iu making Ae efocuAtiXifitvum lem , but saw nothing in it which could announce ft mm t » % lyalliig # f # tedke ; Hot one » ga of ricllfe » , ow even , pMife « 4 n ^ o || o «^^ ^ 3 BwJ «*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 789, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/33/
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