The great pyramid passages and chambers

PLATE CV. have settled outside. Colonel Conder states that in 1872, when he first visited J. erusalem, the population was only one-third of what it is now, and there were at that time only a few villas outside the gates, while the suburbs to north and west had not grown up, and there were no modern buildings on Olivet. Now fully half the city is outside

The Mosque of Omar from the south.

the City-wall, chiefly to the north and west—Plate LKKXV.

445 When I left off my last letter to you, we were about to leave the hotel (Hotel Fast, Jerusalem) for a drive. It was Wednesday afternoon, 7th inst. We drove first to the Tombs of the Kings. In one of the chambers a stone bench or ramp which runs round the walls is broken away at the north-west corner, revealing a passage or shaft leading down to a chamber on a lower level (the lowest hell or Sheol—Deut. 32:22; Psa. 86:13). It looks so like the broken Well-mouth in the Great Pyramid, that Morton wanted a flashlight photograph of it. A professional photographer accompanied us, and the picture which he secured has turned out very well—Plate XCVIII.

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