. Arctic sunbeams: or, From Broadway to the Bosphorus, by way of the North Cape. V.^^^; frJ: 7. vf,^< DAMASCUS. 255 bones of the massacred Christians of i860 are de-posited. Here, too, are the flat and dusty tomb-stones of the Christian cemetery, and near by is arock. It is a mark of the spot where the greatapostle received his new hght. Altogether it is arough and dusty spot, but a portion of the oldDamascus highway is saved by the veneration ofthe Latin monks, who have celebrated it by distin-guishing monuments. It may not be, however, sowell avouched as the place on the wall where
. Arctic sunbeams: or, From Broadway to the Bosphorus, by way of the North Cape. V.^^^; frJ: 7. vf,^< DAMASCUS. 255 bones of the massacred Christians of i860 are de-posited. Here, too, are the flat and dusty tomb-stones of the Christian cemetery, and near by is arock. It is a mark of the spot where the greatapostle received his new hght. Altogether it is arough and dusty spot, but a portion of the oldDamascus highway is saved by the veneration ofthe Latin monks, who have celebrated it by distin-guishing monuments. It may not be, however, sowell avouched as the place on the wall where was let down when he escaped to is pictured to the eye in the engraving. Itwas customary, in those days, to live upon thewalls, and George—St. George, for he has beensainted—who was the porter of the gate, is said tohave lived upon this wall. He kept this gate. Thefact is briefly recorded by St. Paul in second Co-rinthians, nth chapter, 33d verse. The spot is inan angle of the wall, which is fifty feet high, andwhose old portions have been supplemented by
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