Identifier: syriaholylandthe00kell (find matches)
Title: Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &c. from the best and most recent authorities
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Kelly, Walter Keating
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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se the hills towardsSamaria, bleak and desolate. The road now becomes more rocky, thescene more wild and cheerless, and no object presents itself to arrestthe travellers attention, or to beguile for a moment his impatiencefor the first sight of the Holy City. At length it opens upon himat the issue from a defile. The view of it from this approach issudden and near, and for that reason, perhaps, more impressive thanif the mind had been prepared for it by a more distant vision. Thefirst involuntary exclamation that bursts forth, is that which prophecyhas said shall be in the mouth of a all that pass,— Is this the citythat men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth ? It isimpossible that any delineation can be more just or any image more vividthan is contained in these few words ; How doth the city sit solitary !The sight carried across a tract of gray, desolate, and barren rock, and the ruinsof the Muslim burial-ground, with crumbling tombs on every hand, rests upon
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Jerusalem. a bare dead wall, above which little is seen but the graceless domes of housesand the tops and minarets of a few mosques, and the wild hills in the dis-tance beyond Jordan, at the foot of which lies the Dead Sea. Scarcely asign of vegetation can be traced, with the exception of the leaden green ofa few ragged olives; and the city, placed on the brow of the hill, as if anobject for observation, looks as if a portion of it had fallen down the steep,and presents one of the most gloomy and melancholy spectacles thatimagination can conceive. JERUSALEM. 361 CHAPTER XXVII. Jerusalem.—Church of the Holy Sepulchre.—Environs of the City. At length our feet stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem !—Peace bewithin thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. As we enter theBethlehem or Yaffa gate we have on our left a small wheat-field in whichthere is an oblong pit twenty feet deep, and lined coarsely with small stones.This my cicerone informed me was the pool of Hezekiah, and the

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