. Godey's lady's book . Moslem tombs,its white dome contrasting with the dark moun-tains and scanty shrubs around. 29 so godeys ladys book and magazine. Afar off to the westward is the village ofRama, where of old there was a voice heard:lamentation and weeping, and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children and would notbe comforted, because they are not. Now itis almost deserted, a poor and miserable vil-lage, mourning, as it were, amid the remainsof its former greatness. The ruined buildingsfrom whence the strains of music and songs ofpraise resounded are now mouldering fast. The harp i
. Godey's lady's book . Moslem tombs,its white dome contrasting with the dark moun-tains and scanty shrubs around. 29 so godeys ladys book and magazine. Afar off to the westward is the village ofRama, where of old there was a voice heard:lamentation and weeping, and great mourning,Rachel weeping for her children and would notbe comforted, because they are not. Now itis almost deserted, a poor and miserable vil-lage, mourning, as it were, amid the remainsof its former greatness. The ruined buildingsfrom whence the strains of music and songs ofpraise resounded are now mouldering fast. The harp is broke, the song is fled,The voice is hushed, the bard is dead.* We wended our way through the dusty roads,with a fierce sun pouring his rays upon us,and no refreshing breeze to cool our scorchedfaces. By and by the scenery became morepleasing ; luxuriant vines clambered over stonefences, and a few silver-leaved olive-trees, shad-ing the dusty road, relieved the landscape ;then we saw fields of wavy corn in the valleys. below us; and here and there clusters of figand olive-trees, and dark, towering few paces more we have turned the cor-ner of the road, and the village of Bethlehem,with its high walls and embattlements, standingupon the summit of a terrace-cultivated hill,bursts upon us. Rouhh! Yallah! shouts the sheik; andour party trot past the camels that are crawlingalong the rugged pathway. TaitV (good),we have passed under the pointed archway ofthe gate, and are now within the town, sur-rounded by the crowd of people ready to welcomeour troop, and offering for sale amulets, crosses,bowls, cups, and other things manufacturedfrom the fetid limestone of the Dead Sea ; andboxes, beads, and crucifixes of mother-of-pearl,carved with more labor than ingenuity or town of Bethlehem contains about 3,000inhabitants, who gain a living chiefly by agri-culture and the manufacture of the articlesmentioned above. They are a quarrelsome set of people, and have not a
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