Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . AN EASTEEN DINING-ROOM. only ill Jerusalem, for already his eyes turn toward Rome,where he expects in March to meet some of his family, andwe must in the meantime see Damascus, Beyrout, Smyrna, AROUND THE WORLD. 327 Constantinople, Athens, Corintli and Syracuse. We satout in the afternoon to walk over the sacred places, andour first walk was along the Via Dolorosa. Some of us had stolen away in the morning before theceremonies began, to walk over the street consecrated toChristianity, as the st
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . AN EASTEEN DINING-ROOM. only ill Jerusalem, for already his eyes turn toward Rome,where he expects in March to meet some of his family, andwe must in the meantime see Damascus, Beyrout, Smyrna, AROUND THE WORLD. 327 Constantinople, Athens, Corintli and Syracuse. We satout in the afternoon to walk over the sacred places, andour first walk was along the Via Dolorosa. Some of us had stolen away in the morning before theceremonies began, to walk over the street consecrated toChristianity, as the street over which Jesus Christ carriedHis cross. I am living within five minutes walk of Cal-vary. I look at it in the morning from the terrace nearmy chamber door—a fair rounded dome, high in the air,. VIA DOLOROSA covering the spot upon which our Saviour suffered. I donot enter into the question as to whether or not this wasthe real Calvary. Somehow one thinks it must have been 328 GRANTS TOUR one of the hills beyond the city, of which there are many;that the cross would have been more imposing on the topof the Mount of Olives, for instance, than here within thewalls near the market places, under a dome. But execu-tions, we must remember, are not pageants, and it wouldhave been a weary road over the valley and up the hill forany careful centurion to send his soldiers. It is knownthat in the time of Christ, Calvary was without any citywalls, that it was about sixty feet above the lower streetsof the city, as high as Mount Moriah and Mount that any condition of place and convenience is pass from our hotel on Mount Zion through a narrow,dingy street paved with jagged cobble-stones. We makeour way with some difficulty. We stumble and sliderather than walk. We pass
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