Identifier: landbookorbibli02thom (find matches)
Title: The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Thomson, William McClure, 1806-1894
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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morning of April 16th, 1833, we left the con-vent of Archangel, and passed down the Via Dolorosa tothe palace, where the guard was already in motion, andfrom thence, with the white flag of the pilgrim in front, andthe green of the prophet in the rear, we set forward. Itwas a merry hour apparently to every body. The wholepopulation of the city, of either sex and of every age, intheir best, lined the zigzag path along which the pilgrimhost was to pass. With noise and pomj) such as Arabsonly can affect, we passed out at St. Stephens gate, woundour way down into the narrow vale of Jehoshaphat, over thesouth point of Olivet, by the miserable remains of the cityof Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, and then prepared ourselvesto descend, for you remember that we must go ^^down toJericho. And, sure enough, down, down-we did go, overslippery rocks, for more than a mile, when the path be-came less precipitous. Still, however, the road follows thedry channel of a brook for several miles farther, as if d
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DESCENT TO JERICHO—ZACCHEUS. 443 descending into the very bowels of the earth. How admi-lubly calculated for robbers! After leaving the brook, which turns aside too far to thesouth, we ascended and descended naked hills for severalmiles, the prospect gradually becoming more and moregloomy. Not a house, nor even a tree, is to be seen; andthe only remains are those of a large khan, said to havebeen the inn to which the Good Samaritan brought thewounded Jew. Not far from here, in a narrow defile, anEnglish traveler was attacked, shot, and robbed in 1820.As you approach the plain the mountains wear a more dole-ful appearance, the ravines become more frightful, and thenarrow passages less and less passable. At length the wearypilgrim reaches the plain by a long, steep declivity, anddoubtless expects to step immediately into Jericho. Butaltts! no city appears, and after a full hours ride he pitchesliis tent (if he have one) in a dry, sultry plain of sand,sparsely sprinkled over with bumt-

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