. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON PALiESTlNE. 21 one of them is adorned with a running foliage ; the freeze alfo is beauti-fully ornamented The room E. which leads to the feveral apartmentsof the fepulchres, is about five or fix teet high, and fo arc the firft apartment a. has no cells in it. The next b. has cells on threefides. To the right at c. flands the ftone door, which has been thoughtfomething extraordinary; it is two feet and a half wide, five feet and ahalf long, and five inches thick ; it is left rough within, and is feen atF; it turns in two fock
. A description of the East, and some other countries . ON PALiESTlNE. 21 one of them is adorned with a running foliage ; the freeze alfo is beauti-fully ornamented The room E. which leads to the feveral apartmentsof the fepulchres, is about five or fix teet high, and fo arc the firft apartment a. has no cells in it. The next b. has cells on threefides. To the right at c. flands the ftone door, which has been thoughtfomething extraordinary; it is two feet and a half wide, five feet and ahalf long, and five inches thick ; it is left rough within, and is feen atF; it turns in two fockets, above and below, and poflibly it might belifted out of the lower focket, or by cutting a grovive, be let in, and thehole fo artfully filled up with ftone as not to be feen, at leaft after fomany ages: But it is thought by fome to have been hewn out of thisrock, and never to have been out of the place ; which is not fo difficultto be accounted for, if we fuppofe that in cutting out the apartment,A, B, C, D. in this plate, they firft cleared the pl
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