"From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears - including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful (14597759268)

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Title: "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land ...
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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detestation for theidolatrous acts here performed, topographers call it Moimtof Corruption, Mount of Ofiense, and Hill of Scandal;and, as if to typify the moral desolation of that great mansheart, Xature has planted neither shrub, nor flower, nor grassthereon, but on all its sides, and over all its summit, her sterilehand has scattered fragments of flint. Directly opposite the village of Siloam is the famous Foimt-ain of the Virgin, situated at the base of Mount Ophel. It de-rives its name from the monkish legend that here the motherof Jesus was accustomed to wash her linen. The Turks, how-ever, call it the Fountain of the Dragon, from the supersti-tion that, as it is a remitting fountain, a dragon lives within it,who stops the water when awake, but when he sleeps the wa- Ecc, xii.. .5. = Matt., ix., 23. ^ Ps. Ivi., 8. * 1 Kinps, xi., 4-8. 92 FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. ter flows. The reservoir is a tuuiiel-like cavern, twenty-fivefeet deep, excavated in the southern side of Ophel. Sixteen
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FOUNTAIN OP THE VIEGIN. Steps lead down to a platform twelve feet wide, over which achamber has been built of old stones ten feet high and eighteenlong. From this platform there is a flight of fourteen steps,from beneath the lowest of which the Avater issues, which, afterrising to the height of three feet, flows over a pebbled bed,and, passing through a channel, mingles with the w^aters ofSiloam. Penetrating the mountain, this winding channel istwo feet wide, from four to twenty high, and more than 1750long. The source of this fountain is unknown. Though subterra-nean water-courses, which penetrate Zion, Ophel, and Moriah,have been explored, yet it has never been ascertained whetherthe water flows from a fountain beneath the Temple area, orfrom some great central reservoir in the heart of one of thehills, from which are supplied, by lateral conduits, the numer-ous wells, cisterns, and fountains that here abound. For agesit has been a remitting fountain, flowing at intervals two orthre