The Holy Land and the Bible; . ll great Silseleh Gate, at the foot of David Street and thus almost inthe centre of the western side of the enclosure, admits you by two orthree steps upwards to the sacred precincts, which offer in their wideopen space of thirty-five acres, the circumference nearlj^ equal to amile,3 a delightful relief, after toiling through the narrow and filthystreets. Lying about 2,420 feet above the Mediterranean, this spot iscomparatively cool, even in summer. The surface was once a roughhill sloping or swelling irregularly. Ijut a vast level platform has beenfor
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ll great Silseleh Gate, at the foot of David Street and thus almost inthe centre of the western side of the enclosure, admits you by two orthree steps upwards to the sacred precincts, which offer in their wideopen space of thirty-five acres, the circumference nearlj^ equal to amile,3 a delightful relief, after toiling through the narrow and filthystreets. Lying about 2,420 feet above the Mediterranean, this spot iscomparatively cool, even in summer. The surface was once a roughhill sloping or swelling irregularly. Ijut a vast level platform has beenformed, originallj^ under Solomon, by cutting away the rock in someplaces, raising huge arched vaults at others, and elsewhere by fillingup the hollows with rubbish and stones. Near the north-west corner the natural rock appears on the surface, 1 lirrnicn/ of Jerusalem, p. 198. 2 Tent Work in Palesline. p. 185. 3 On tlio map in The Recovery ofJerumletn, the entire space is about 4,800 feet round, about 500 feet less tlian a And the ass saw the - - angel of the Lord stand-ing in the way, and hissword drawn in his liand:and the ass turned aside out ofthe way. and went into the field: - and Balaam smote the ass, toturn her into the way. But the angel of tlie Lord stoodin a path of the vineyards, a wallbeing on this side, and a wall onthat side. And when the ass saw the angelof the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall,and crushed Bnlannis foot against thewall: and he smote her again.— 23-25. SOUTH WALL OF THE HAREM ESH-SHERIF. (See page 311,) XXII.] JERUSALEM, 313 or is only slightly covered, but it was originally much higher. Thewhole hill, however, has been cut away at this part, except a mass atthe angle of the wall, rising with a perpendicular face, north and south,forty feet above the platform. On this, it seems certain, the RomanFort Antonia was built, for Josephus speaks of it as standing atthis corner on a rock fifty cubits higli.^ Tliis platform is, more-o
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