The great pyramid passages and chambers

PLATE XCI. valley, which runs between Mount Zion and Mount Moriah—Plate LXXXV. Though now nearly filled with rubbish, and largely built upon, it can still be recognized as a valley. Formerly it was spanned by a couple of bridges. We saw the remains of the spring of an arch of the south bridge, jutting out slightly from the wall of the Temple Area. It is called Robinson's Arch after the well-known archeologist who, as a result of his excavations, discovered it under many feet of rubbish. Mount Zion is much higher than Mount Moriah on which the ancient Temple stood. We walked on down the valley toward the gate which opens into the Valley at Hinnom. This gate is called the “‘ Dung Gate,’ and was, and still is, used by the inhabitants of Jerusalem as an exit for the refuse of the city. It is the smallest gate of any, and we saw plenty evidences of its use.

396 On Saturday forenoon, John, Jack, Mr. Jamal and I rode round Jerusalem on donkeys. It is the custom here for all, high and low, to ride on donkeys. We started from the hotel and rode past Jaffa gate down the desolate valley of Hinnom, first southward skirting the west side of Mount Zion, and then eastward till we reached the southern end of the Valley of Jehoshaphat —Plate LXKXV. The road descends steeply all the way, The Jews’ Wailing Place. and is so rough that vehicular traffic is impossible. At the bend of the valley, and in it, there is a new Jewish colony of about two dozen houses, poor, and closely built together. We could not help remarking how peculiar it is that Jews should erect their homes in the Valley of

Hinnom,—Gehenna! They can have but little faith in its symbolical significance, ‘ utter destruction,” or they would surely not build there !

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