Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he time of the twoHi rams. THE ECCE HOMO ARCH, This arch is over the Via Dolorosa opposite the Gov-ernors house, and is traditionally said to bear the verychamber and window from which Jesus was shownto the people by Pilate when he said Behold theMan (Ecce homo). This Arch spans the principal street of the city, be-ing the one that leads from St. Stephens Gate on theeast to the Joppa Gate on the west, along which thou-sands of pilgrims from different countries pass in allsorts of garb and every variety of style, on foot, ondonkeys, camels and horses. Some loaded with bag-gage, others with books or relics, and, mingling withthese, the natives in equally varied costume and con-dition carrying fruit, water-jars, and children. Nogreater picture of confusion could be imagined thanis seen in Jerusalem about the time of Easter everyyear, when nearly every nation under the sun is repre-sented by pilgrims of every degree, from the wealthynabob on horseback to the poor and lame hobbling onfoot.
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■1i « 60 THE ACACIA-TRISE. Tlie Acacia Seyal is one of the most beautiful ever-greens of Palestine. It is often found growing in thedry bed of some extinct brook where all other treeshave died out. The wood is fine-grainedjhard, and of abrown color. The leaves are small and pinnulate,and its blossoms are little tufts of yellow fiber-likehair; the seeds are in pods. The largest acacias in Palestine are those growingnear the fountains of Engedi, on the west shore ofthe Dead Sea; several of which are from six to eightfeet in diameter. They are found growing all alongthe course of the Jordan,south of the Sea of Galilee. The gum-arabic of commerce and medicine is pro-duced by this tree spontaneously, and from incisionsin the bark. The Arabs use it for food in time ofscarcity. Camels eat its thorny foliage. Its use bythe fi-aternity is well known, and refers to it as an evergreen, therefore a very appropriate emblem of life beyond the grave.

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