If, after the sewage had reached the pool by the Fountain of the Virgin, there was still need of a further supply of water to sweep it away, that could be brought by the long conduit from the south side of the _Birket es-Sultan_, by the conduit at the east end of the Pool of Bethesda, and especially by a conduit, which, starting from the west extremity of the Bridge, runs down the Tyropoeon to the Fountain of the Virgin, along which the whole stream from Etham might be diverted, if necessary. I have not mentioned this before, but will give a fuller description of it in another place. The conduit on the west slope of the Kidron valley, nearly opposite to the Tomb of Absalom, which I saw discharging so much water in 1857, may possibly have been another means of augmenting the supply, and may very probably (although I have not been able to prove it) communicate with the great reservoir at the south-east corner of the _Haram_, and have occasionally been used to lay it dry. I have now arrived at the end of my researches on Mount Moriah, and leave the subject, trusting that some other explorer may find more frequent opportunities and more favourable circumstances for examining this venerable spot; and thus carry further my discoveries, and correct any errors into which I may have fallen. FOOTNOTES: [171] Note I. [172] Note II. [173] Plates XI., XII. [174] Gen. xxii. 2-14. [175] Note III.; Gen. xxviii. 10-12. [176] Gen. xxxv. 1-15. [177] 2 Sam. xxiv; 1 Chron. xxi. [178] 1 Chron. xxii. 1. [179] Ant. VII. 13, § 4. [180] 2 Sam. xvii. 18; Jer. xli. 8. [181] Plate XXVII. [182] 1 Maccab. vi. 32, 33. [183] Note IV. [184] 1 Kings v. 18. [185] 2 Chron. ii. 13, 14. [186] 1 Kings v. 10, 11. [187] 2 Chron. ii. 16. [188] 1 Kings vii. 10, 11. [189] 1 Kings vi. 7. [190] Jewish War, V. 5, § 1. [191] Ant. VIII. 3, § 9; Jewish War, V. 5, §§ 1, 2. [192] 1 Kings vi. 1, 38. [193] Note V. [194] Ant. VIII. 3. [195] Palestine, pp. 289-292. [196] 1 Kings vi. 2, 3. [197] 1 Kings vi. 17-20; viii. 9. [198] 2 Chron. iv. 9. [199] 2 Chron. iv. 9; Ezek. xl. 17. [200] 2 Chron. iv. 1; Ezek. xliii. 13, 18. [201] Note VI. [202] 2 Chron. iv. 2, 5, 6. [203] 1 Kings vii. 38. [204] 1 Kings vii. 38; 2 Chron. iv. 6; Lev. i. 9. [205] 1 Kings vi. 5; Ezek. xlii. 13. [206] Lev. i. 5, 11, 16; xiv. 11, 12. [207] Ezek. xl. 40, 41, 42, 46. [208] 1 Kings xiv. 25, 26. [209] 2 Kings xiv. 13. [210] 2 Kings xii. 4-14; 2 Chron. xxiv. 4-14. [211] 2 Kings xxv. 9. [212] 2 Kings xxv. 11, 12, 22, 23; Jer. xl. 6. [213] Jer. xl. 12. [214] 2 Kings xxv. 25. [215] 2 Kings xxv. 26; Jer. xliii. 7. [216] 2 Chron. xxxvi. 22, 23; Ezra i. 1; v. 13. [217] Note VII. [218] Ezra vii. 8, 9. [219] Ezra iii. 8, 12, 13; Haggai ii. 3. [220] Ezra iv. 1-24. [221] Ezra iv. 24; v. 1, 2. [222] Ezra vi. 15-17. [223] Ezra vi. 3. [224] Haggai ii. 3; Ezra iii. 12. [225] Ant. XV. 11, § 1; Note VIII. [226] 1 Maccab. i. 20-23, 35, 36, 41; Ant. XII. 5, §§ 3, 4.