. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... IlIJIENSE STONES OF SOLOMON 8 AGE. From this corner to the Golden Gate, a distance of morethan 1000 feet, is one unbroken line of wall, composed mostlyof large rough stones, interspersed with which are fragmentsof antique columns. Near the top of the wall, and projectingseveral feet, is a round porphyry column, on M-hich, accordingto a Moslem legend, Mohammed is to sit astride and judg
. "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land .... IlIJIENSE STONES OF SOLOMON 8 AGE. From this corner to the Golden Gate, a distance of morethan 1000 feet, is one unbroken line of wall, composed mostlyof large rough stones, interspersed with which are fragmentsof antique columns. Near the top of the wall, and projectingseveral feet, is a round porphyry column, on M-hich, accordingto a Moslem legend, Mohammed is to sit astride and judge theworld, the people having been assembled for judgment in thevale below. Overlooking the Kidron, and facing the Mountof Olives beyond, is the Golden Gate, now walled up, but Matt., iv., 5, 6. = Anti B., xv., c. xi.; Robinsons B. R., i., p. 290. FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. 39 which attracts the travelers attention by its conspicuous loca-tion and its uncommon beauty. Beins: the centre of a projec-. GOLDEN GATE—INTEEIOB VIEW. tion tifty-five feet long, and standing out six feet, it consists ofa double portal, spanned by two semicircular arches richly or-namented. From what resemble corbels spring two Corin-thian capitals, sustaining an entablature bending round theentire arch. Within the gate is a noble chambw fifty-five feetsquare. The ceiling is divided into flattened domes, supportedby arches springing from side pilasters, and from two Corin-thian columns of polished marble, adorned witli elegant capi- 40 FKOM DAN TO BEEKSHEBA. tals; and beneath the arches a pretty entablature is carriedfrom pilaster to pilaster, giving an air of exquisite beauty tothe entire structure. The origin of this imposing gate is unknown. It may be asold as the time of Herod the Great; it may not be older thanthe reign of Constantine. Impressed with its beauty, somehave regarded it as occupying the site of the Beautiful Gateat which Peter and John healed the crijjple. That, however,was a gate of the
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