Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . g upon it, is found in theaccount of Josiahs iconoclasm (xxiii.). The menof Bethel and Ai returned with Zerubbabel fromBabylon. The ruins of the ancient city are found on the southside of a hill, and cover nearly four acres of consist of many foundations, and crumblingwalls of houses and public buildings. On thehighest p
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . g upon it, is found in theaccount of Josiahs iconoclasm (xxiii.). The menof Bethel and Ai returned with Zerubbabel fromBabylon. The ruins of the ancient city are found on the southside of a hill, and cover nearly four acres of consist of many foundations, and crumblingwalls of houses and public buildings. On thehighest part of the hill, towards the n. n. w., arethe remains of a square tower, and near the southernDoint are the walls of a church, standing within thefoundations of a larger and much more ancient struc-ture. The ruins of other churches are also found inthis vicinity. Near by are the remains of one of thelargest reservoirs in Palestine, measuring 314 feet inlength by 217 feet in width. The walls were builtof massive stones, and the southern wall is still bottom of this reservoir is now a grass-plot, hav-ing in it two living springs of good water. Whetherthey are natural springs, or whether they are fed bya buried aqueduct, has not yet been
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