The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem . 3 J *.• 1^ ,,y^^^ Ordnance Survey map, and running to the road which passes along the moat of the city atthe north-east, We counted a dozen openings of tombs, and the last are hardly 40 metres 3O0 THE SURVEY OF WESTERN TALESTINE. from the moat of tlic city. If ilic examination of these tombs, which \vc arc about to makewithout delay, leads us to assij^n them an ancient date, it is clear that the existence of acemetery of a certain date may furnish us proofs for or against tlie existence of a third wall tothe north of this point. The i>ro|irictor o
The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem . 3 J *.• 1^ ,,y^^^ Ordnance Survey map, and running to the road which passes along the moat of the city atthe north-east, We counted a dozen openings of tombs, and the last are hardly 40 metres 3O0 THE SURVEY OF WESTERN TALESTINE. from the moat of tlic city. If ilic examination of these tombs, which \vc arc about to makewithout delay, leads us to assij^n them an ancient date, it is clear that the existence of acemetery of a certain date may furnish us proofs for or against tlie existence of a third wall tothe north of this point. The i>ro|irictor of the ground told me that they had found another great tomb cut in therock under the wall north-east of the present building (at the south side of the tittle courtmargined on the house on the Ordnance Survey map). It appears, besides, that a traditionassigns to the Kurm esh .Sheikh a ma/jain of El Khadher (the prophet Elijah). I think thatthere must exist about here many tombs of the same kind. We know that it is very near thispoint that
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