. "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 .... identical with the one placed there by orderof Solomon, and now marks the southwest angle of the areawhich inclosed his Temple. Thirty-nine feet to the north isthe foot of the ancient bridge Avhich once spanned the Tyro-pean Yalley. Viewed casually, these stones appear to havebeen pushed out from their places by some violent concussionwithin, but, Avhen examined Avith care, they indica
. "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 .... identical with the one placed there by orderof Solomon, and now marks the southwest angle of the areawhich inclosed his Temple. Thirty-nine feet to the north isthe foot of the ancient bridge Avhich once spanned the Tyro-pean Yalley. Viewed casually, these stones appear to havebeen pushed out from their places by some violent concussionwithin, but, Avhen examined Avith care, they indicate the designof an architect, and the occupancy of their original of three courses of huge stones, projecting oneover the other as they rise, they form the segment of an their external surface hewn to a regular curve, they eachmeasure from tAventy to twenty-four feet long, and from five to Anti B., XV., c. xv., s. 3. = Luke, xix., ii. ^ Wars of the Jews, b. vii., c. i. 62 PEOM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. SIX high; and extending along the wall about forty feet, theyspring therefrom nearly the same distance. From the appa-rent width of the valley from this arch to the i^recipitous rocks. buhOUliN S LiEIDGE on the eastern brow of Mount Zion, this bridge was 350 feetlong, and consisted of five arches, supported by four interven-ing piers. Without giving us the date of its construction, Josepliusspeaks of this bridge as existing in his day, and the colossalproportion of the remaining blocks, together with the mannerin which they are dressed, evince their great age, and also theirJewish origin. It is older than Herod, as it is mentioned inconnection with Pompeys siege of the Holy City, which oc-curred twenty years prior to the accession of the Idumean.^It is not, therefore, unreasonable to supjDose it as old as Sol-omon, whose wonderful works have ever been the admirationof mankind. Attended by a gorgeous retinue of princes and * Wars of the Jews, b. vi., c. vi. -
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