Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Jewish National and University Library Digitized Book Repository. See http://aleph.nli.org.il/nnl/dig/books/bk001202937.html Transcriber's note: Greek words and phrases in the Greek alphabet have been transliterated and are surrounded by plus signs (+) in this transcription (example: +spêlaiôn+). Footnotes in the original publication were numbered at the page level. E.g., if a page had three footnotes, they were numbered 1, 2 & 3, and footnote numbering began with 1 on each page on which notes appeared. For this transcription, all 903 footnotes have been renumbered sequentially, from 1 to 903, and footnotes for a given chapter have been placed at the end of the chapter. JERUSALEM EXPLORED Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City. [Illustration: University Press Logo] Cambridge: Printed by C. J. Clay, M.A. At the University Press. JERUSALEM EXPLORED Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, With Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans, and Sections, by ERMETE PIEROTTI, Doctor of Mathematics, and Architect-Engineer, Civil and Military, to His Excellency Surraya Pasha of Jerusalem. Translated by Thomas George Bonney, M.A., F.G.S. Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. VOLUME I.--TEXT. [Illustration: Printer's Logo] London: Bell and Daldy, Fleet Street. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co. M.DCCC.LXIV. [The right of Translation is reserved.] TO HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY NAPOLEON III. Emperor of the French, PROTECTOR OF THE HOLY PLACES, THIS CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHÆOLOGICAL SCIENCE, IN WHICH HE IS HIMSELF A PROFICIENT, IS BY HIS MAJESTY'S AUGUST PERMISSION INSCRIBED, BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, ERMETE PIEROTTI. _PALAIS DES TUILERIES, LE 26 NOV. 1861._ _CABINET DE L'EMPEREUR._ _MONSIEUR,_ _L'EMPEREUR ME CHARGE D'AVOIR L'HONNEUR DE VOUS INFORMER QUE, SELON VOS DÉSIRS, SA MAJESTÉ VEUT BIEN ACCEPTER LA DÉDICACE DE VOTRE OUVRAGE SUR LES MONUMENTS ET LES LOCALITÉS DE LA PALESTINE[1]._ _AGRÉEZ, MONSIEUR, L'ASSURANCE DE MA CONSIDÉRATION DISTINGUÉE._ _POUR LE SECRÉTAIRE DE L'EMPEREUR, CHEF DU CABINET ET PAR AUTORISATION._ _LE Ss. CHEF._ _JACALEY._ _LE DR. E. PIEROTTI._ _11 RUE DES DEUX BOULES, PARIS._ [1] Of which Work this is intended as the first part. PREFACE.