. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . 68 Route 4. JERUSALEM. f. Western and wall, is filled with, immense deposits of debris, some of wliicli wasprobably tbe earth removed in levelling the corner. Under tlie North Part of the Haram there was originally asmall valley running from to ; the corner of thewall reaches to a depth of 118 ft. below the present level of theground. In the valley lay the Birket Israin (pool of Israel; PI. H, 3),now filled up with rubbish. It was formerly regarded as the Poolof Bethes
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . 68 Route 4. JERUSALEM. f. Western and wall, is filled with, immense deposits of debris, some of wliicli wasprobably tbe earth removed in levelling the corner. Under tlie North Part of the Haram there was originally asmall valley running from to ; the corner of thewall reaches to a depth of 118 ft. below the present level of theground. In the valley lay the Birket Israin (pool of Israel; PI. H, 3),now filled up with rubbish. It was formerly regarded as the Poolof Bethesda (comp. p. 49). Early pilgrims call it the Sheep Pool(Piscina Probatica), as it was erroneously supposed that the SheepGate (John v. 2) stood on the site of the present gate of St. was fed from the W., and could be regulated and emptied by achannel in a tower at the corner. In a cistern near the of the pool Warren found a double set of vaulted substructions,one over the other, and to the N. of these an apartment with anopening in the N. side of the wall of the Haram. We return
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