. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. ^ the Gardenof Gethsemane. Bevond and four hundred feet below. (215) 2i6 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. us, the little brook Kedron trickled through the narrowValley of Jehoshaphat. Across the valley on the op-posite heights of Mount Moriah, only half a mile awayin a direct line, prominent in the foreground, stood theMosque of Omar, and back of it rose the square roofand round domes of the city buildings. Away off to theeast, deep down in the valley, we could see a portion ofthe Dead Sea and could trace the Valley of the RiverJordan. We walke
. A trip to the Orient; the story of a Mediterranean cruise. ^ the Gardenof Gethsemane. Bevond and four hundred feet below. (215) 2i6 A TRIP TO THE ORIENT. us, the little brook Kedron trickled through the narrowValley of Jehoshaphat. Across the valley on the op-posite heights of Mount Moriah, only half a mile awayin a direct line, prominent in the foreground, stood theMosque of Omar, and back of it rose the square roofand round domes of the city buildings. Away off to theeast, deep down in the valley, we could see a portion ofthe Dead Sea and could trace the Valley of the RiverJordan. We walked from the summit of the Mount of Olivesdown a steep, rocky, crooked, narrow lane, hemmedin by stone walls, to the foot of the slope, as it is con-sidered too dangerous for the tourists to remain in thecarriages while descending this short cut to a lower carriages rejoined us later. At the foot of the hillthere was a piece of land about half an acre in extentenclosed by a white stone fence. Within the enclosurewas a garden surrounded by an iron fence. Betweenthe stone fence and the iron railing was a wide pat
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