. "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 .... of Titus, the Tower of An-tonia was taken by the Romans, who, razing it to its founda-tion, left it a mass of ruins. Cutting away the Acropolis rock,they left but a projecting fragment, now the site of the PashasPalace. Removing the elegant courts and jDorticoes to planttheir engines of war against the Temple, they cleared an area500 feet long and 1000 wide, which is now in part a scar
. "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 .... of Titus, the Tower of An-tonia was taken by the Romans, who, razing it to its founda-tion, left it a mass of ruins. Cutting away the Acropolis rock,they left but a projecting fragment, now the site of the PashasPalace. Removing the elegant courts and jDorticoes to planttheir engines of war against the Temple, they cleared an area500 feet long and 1000 wide, which is now in part a scarpedrock, and the rest is dotted with patches of grass. Inhumedbeneath the ruins lay the deep fosse, the foundation of thenortheast tower, and the base of the loftier tower at the south-east angle, all of which remain to our own day, pointing to An-tonia as one of the grandest of human structures. Equally superstitious with the Latins and Greeks, the Mos-lems have many shrines within the Temple area consecratedeither to the memory of their great Prophet, or to that of someeminent saint. Near a graceful minaret, which rises from thescarped rock, is a small dome, marking the spot where Solo- John, xix., FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. 67 mon, after the completion of the Temple, stood and the western side of the Haran are cloisters, Avith squarepillars and pointed arches, devoted to meditation and prayer,and to the accommodation of dervishes, eunuchs, and serpent-charmers. In a small room beneath one of the cloisters is thelegendary iron ring to which Mohammed tied his Alborak onthe night of his ascension. In the centre of the oblong area within the walls is a raisedplatform fifteen feet high, 550 long north and south, and 450wide ea^ and west. It is paved with Palestine marble, andreached by eight flights of stone steps, spanned by light Sara-cenic arches. Ascending the platform by the northern steps,we lingered for a moment to enjoy a scene of extraoi-dinarybeauty. On eit
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