. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . on ( 68, 76). The road to the leads to the Jewish colonies tothe N. of the Jaffa Suburb, and the road to the N. is the road to theMount of Olives and Nabulus (comp. pp. 76, 215). In the rock to the right of the Kidron Valley road, about 100 pacesto the E. of the Damascus Gate, and 19 ft. below the wall, is the entrance to the so-calledCotton Grotto (PI. F, 2, 3),rediscovered in 1852. Thiscavern is called the linengrotto (Mughdrat el-Kettdn)by Moslem authors, and itcorrespond
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . on ( 68, 76). The road to the leads to the Jewish colonies tothe N. of the Jaffa Suburb, and the road to the N. is the road to theMount of Olives and Nabulus (comp. pp. 76, 215). In the rock to the right of the Kidron Valley road, about 100 pacesto the E. of the Damascus Gate, and 19 ft. below the wall, is the entrance to the so-calledCotton Grotto (PI. F, 2, 3),rediscovered in 1852. Thiscavern is called the linengrotto (Mughdrat el-Kettdn)by Moslem authors, and itcorresponds to the royalgrottoes of Josephus ( V. 4, 2), It is an ex-tensive subterranean quarry,stretching 214 yards in astraight line below the levelof the city, and slopingconsiderably down towardsthe S. On the sides are stillseen niches for the lamps ofi;.5000 %.^^^M^:\? 3.^«^°;Metrss the quarrymen. The rockyroof is supported by huge pillars. The blocks were separated fromthe rock by means of wooden wedges, which were driven in andwetted so as to cause them to swell; and traces of this mode of. of Jerusalem. GKOTTO OF JEREMIAH. 5. Route. 87 working the quarry are still distiiiguisliable. We possess no clue asto the period when the quarry was used. On one of the walls was akind] of cherub in the Assyrian style (a four-footed being with ahuman head), which is now in the Louvre. There is a tricklingspring on the right side. Opposite the Cotton Grotto, and a little to the N. of the road, isthe so-called Grotto of Jeremiah (El-Edheimyeh; PL F, 2; fee 6 pi.).This was probably also an old quarry originally connected with theCotton Grotto and afterwards separated from it by the removal ofthe intervening rock in order to increase the strength of the forti-fications. We first enter a small garden, in which fragments ofcolumns are scattered about. Passing through a place of prayer weare conducted into a cavern towards the E., and then into a second,circular in shape, about 40 pac
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