The Holy Land and the Bible; . hose, we may be sure, still found inthe neighborhood of the Place of Stoning. Among these, one hasbeen specially noticed by Captain Conder, as possibly the very tombof Joseph of Arimathfea, thus greatly honored. It is cut in the faceof a curious rock platform, measuring seventy paces each way, andsituated about 200 yards west of the Grotto of Jeremiah. The plat-form is roughly scarped on all sides, apparently by human art, and onthe west there is a higher piece of rock, the sides of which are alsorudely scarped. The rest of the space is fairly level, but there se
The Holy Land and the Bible; . hose, we may be sure, still found inthe neighborhood of the Place of Stoning. Among these, one hasbeen specially noticed by Captain Conder, as possibly the very tombof Joseph of Arimathfea, thus greatly honored. It is cut in the faceof a curious rock platform, measuring seventy paces each way, andsituated about 200 yards west of the Grotto of Jeremiah. The plat-form is roughly scarped on all sides, apparently by human art, and onthe west there is a higher piece of rock, the sides of which are alsorudely scarped. The rest of the space is fairly level, but there seemto be traces of the foundations of a surrounding wall, in some lowmounds near the edge of the platform. In this low bank of rock is anancient tomb, rudely cut, with its entrance to the east. The doorwayis mucli broken, and there is a loophole, or window, four feet wide, onboth sides of it. An outer space, seven feet square, has been cut inthe rock, and two stones, placed in this, give the idea that they may 1 Luke xxiii. Moslem Cemetery near Jerusalem. (See page 358.) ^^^•] JEEUSALEM AND BETHANY. 363 have been intended to hold in its proper ])osition a rolling stone withwhich the tomb was closed. On tlic nortli is a side entrance, leadinginto a chamber, with a single stone grave cut along its side, and thenceinto a cavern about eight paces square and ten feet high, with a well-mouth in its roof. Another chamber, within this, is Ieached by a descent of two steps,and measures six feet by nine. On each side of it, an entrance,twenty inches broad, and about five and a half feet high, has beenopened into another chamber beyond ; the passages, which are fourand a half feet long, having a ledge or bench of rock at tlie side. Twobodies could thus be laid in each of the three chambers, which, in turn,lead to two other chambers about five feet square, with narrowentrances. Their floors were still thinly strewn v/ith human boneswhen Captain Conder explored them.^ It would be bold
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