The Holy Land and the Bible; . , tied one behindanother, with huge bales of goods on each, and a man riding the firstand the last, two or three travellers on asses, and one or two on horses,all of them thoroughly Oriental in dress and features, paced northwardsas I turned from the dried mud which does duty for a road, with itsimmemorial neglect on all sides, and rode on towards the Joppa a few short intervals, some fields of no great breadth run alongthe outer face of the walls in this part, the remains of the fosse stop-ping them on the one side, and a low^ wall of dry stone, alongs
The Holy Land and the Bible; . , tied one behindanother, with huge bales of goods on each, and a man riding the firstand the last, two or three travellers on asses, and one or two on horses,all of them thoroughly Oriental in dress and features, paced northwardsas I turned from the dried mud which does duty for a road, with itsimmemorial neglect on all sides, and rode on towards the Joppa a few short intervals, some fields of no great breadth run alongthe outer face of the walls in this part, the remains of the fosse stop-ping them on the one side, and a low^ wall of dry stone, alongside theroad, on the other. The rock coming in flat sheets to the surface here,at different points, made the track more like a civilized highway ; and,on the country side of it, gardens, within stone walls, brightened theroute. Until recently the Avide space between the olive-groves, farther 1 The popular name is used in these pages, as being better known than the new one, theDome of the Kock. 2 Heb. xiii. 12. 3 Acts xxiii. I XXVI.] JERUSALEM AND BETHANY. 365 north, and the city wall, was a naked stretch of broken rock, or a merewaste, thinly sprinkled with grass, which withered into hay after thebrief spring. Of late years, however, the ground has fallen into thehands of Christians, and this, explain it how we may, accounts for thechange, whicli is just as marked, in similar cases, every where in Pales-line. Industry—the industry which always in this land characterizesour religion—has made the wilderness blossom like the rose. In early times this suburb was diligently utilized, as the remains ofnumerous cisterns and tanks sufficiently prove. Rich Jews had theirfine country-houses here, under the shadow of their olive and fig trees,and wealthy Roman officials and residents doubtless followed theirexample, for the shallow shares of the Eastern plough constantly turnup fragments of polished marble and cubes of mosaic flooring. Itmust, indeed, have been the same all round
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