Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Balbec From the United States Ship Delaware, During Her Recent Cruise: With an Attempt to Discriminate Between Truth and Error in Regard to the Sacred Places of the Holy CityJones, George
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Excursions to Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Balbec From the United States Ship Delaware, During Her Recent Cruise: With an Attempt to Discriminate Between Truth and Error in Regard to the Sacred Places of the Holy City
Jones, George
Middle East -- Description and travel
Valley of Hinnom. Potter’s field. Singular properties attributed to
its earth. Will not act on the citizens of Rome. Gloomy character
of the valley. Job’s well. Pool of Siloam. Fountain of Siloam.
Periodical in its flow. Stones and columns belonging probably to the
court of the ancient temple. Monuments of Zachariah and Absalom. Tomb
of Jehoshaphat. Burial-place of the Jews. Valley of Jehoshaphat. View
from the Mount of Olives. Plain of Jordan, and the Dead Sea. Garden
of Gethsemane. Tomb of the Virgin. Tradition about her death and
ascension.
Another interesting excursion was along the valley of Hinnom or
Gehenna, thence up the valley of Kedron, or, as I shall hereafter call
it, of Jehoshaphat, (its present name,) to the summit of the Mount of
Olives, and to the reputed Garden of Gethsemane.
We left the city by the Jaffa gate, and began immediately to descend
into the first of these valleys, which here widens considerably and
then terminates. At the distance of about 500 feet from the extremity
we came to a causeway, stretching quite across, and supposed to be
an ancient embankment for confining waters that were discharged from
an aqueduct still to be seen in the rocks above. This aqueduct may
be traced for some distance on the western side of the valley where
the rocks have in some places been cut with great labor to make way
for it; it passes on towards Bethlehem, and I was informed, has its
commencement at the Reservoirs of Solomon, about two miles beyond
that city. This causeway and aqueduct probably belong to the very few
remnants of the ancient Jerusalem now to be seen.
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