Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . o a semicircular recess onthe left, of very rich architecture, but much injured; probably an ancienttemple, as four fine columns, much loftier than their neighbours, stand infront of it. An inscription bears the name of M. Aurelius Antoninus. Whilst I was endeavouring to decipher the half-effaced letters, the Bedouinguide, who had been watching me for some time, approached, and seizing myarm with one hand, and raising the other up to heaven, to indicate that therewas no
Syria and the Holy Land : their scenery and their people : incidents of travel, &cfrom the best and most recent authorities . o a semicircular recess onthe left, of very rich architecture, but much injured; probably an ancienttemple, as four fine columns, much loftier than their neighbours, stand infront of it. An inscription bears the name of M. Aurelius Antoninus. Whilst I was endeavouring to decipher the half-effaced letters, the Bedouinguide, who had been watching me for some time, approached, and seizing myarm with one hand, and raising the other up to heaven, to indicate that therewas no other witness besides God and ourselves, begged me to tell him if Ihad found a treasure, and if so, it would be a solemn secret between course he was not satisfied with the answer I gave him, and he evincedhis displeasure in a variety of ways. It is a general opinion among thepeople that inscriptions indicate hidden treasure, and that by reading, or JERASH. 449 copying them, a knowledge is obtained where the treasure lies. ^ I often con-futed this opinion with success, by simply asking them whether, if they chose. Part of the principal street of Jerash. to hide their money under ground, they would be so imprudent as to informstrangers where it lay. The opinion, however, is too strongly rooted in theminds of many of the country people to yield to argument.* Further on, still to the left of the street, are the remains of the temple of
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