Forbidden paths in the land of Og; . ited to natural and rain have done their work well; earth-quake shocks have wrought havoc amongst thestately buildings, and scattered the columns rightand left; and Time, the insidious destroyer, hasbrought low those proud edifices, erected towithstand all enemies. Night settled upon the camp in the theatre. The otherwise man kept the watch from midnightand onward. As he paced back and forth on thehighest tier of benches, the sight of the late-risingmoon, fast waning in its reflected glory, broughtto mind the reality of the weird scene about hi
Forbidden paths in the land of Og; . ited to natural and rain have done their work well; earth-quake shocks have wrought havoc amongst thestately buildings, and scattered the columns rightand left; and Time, the insidious destroyer, hasbrought low those proud edifices, erected towithstand all enemies. Night settled upon the camp in the theatre. The otherwise man kept the watch from midnightand onward. As he paced back and forth on thehighest tier of benches, the sight of the late-risingmoon, fast waning in its reflected glory, broughtto mind the reality of the weird scene about dimly-lighted piles and faintly-glimmeringcolumns were the waning, vanishing evidence ofa former magnificence and grandeur foreign tothis land in the present generation. The accompanying outline (from survey byKiepert) gives an idea of the form and vast extentof the ruins of Jerash. The following extended extracts from Keiths Land of Israel (written in 1843), are here in-serted, not only because of the intrinsic merit of 186. Copyright 1900, by Fleming Company. , aoRHAjf 4-co., engr8, Jerash, the Magnificent City the descriptions, but also in corroboration offoregoing statements. Scarcely anywhere are ruins to be foundwhich outvie those of Jerash, supposed to be theancient Gerasa. Fallen as they are, enough is leftto prove that the banks of a streamlet were soenriched and adorned, as to challenge in theirmagnificence, though in ruins, any spot in Europe,the most richly garnished with princely columns generally pertain only to palaces ortemples or other public buildings. But the streetsof Jerash were lined with colonnades from endto end, and opened a way to public edifices, whichyet lost not their distinction, while statelier orfiner columns were doubled or multiplied aroundthem. An arched gateway, facing the chief street,leads to the splendid remains of a magnificenttemple, such as few countries could have evershown. The base of the edifice
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