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Page 15
... Four gates face the cardinal points of the compass , with inscriptions on the lintels dating from the year 830 . When the building is entered - and Christians have been at liberty to enter it since the Crimean War : a privilege not ...
... Four gates face the cardinal points of the compass , with inscriptions on the lintels dating from the year 830 . When the building is entered - and Christians have been at liberty to enter it since the Crimean War : a privilege not ...
Page 4
... few courses of its stone belong to the wall of an ancient date . Around the walls are thirty - four towers , and in the walls are seven gates , five open and two closed - the former are the Jaffa CITIES OF THE WORLD . [ Jerusalem .
... few courses of its stone belong to the wall of an ancient date . Around the walls are thirty - four towers , and in the walls are seven gates , five open and two closed - the former are the Jaffa CITIES OF THE WORLD . [ Jerusalem .
Page 10
... four to the Armenians , out one is the C. A low doorway leads into the second chamber , the Holy Sepulchre . jan á Very BILLS . chapel , " being only six feet by seven , or forty - two square feet in area , of wust ejea L'een square ...
... four to the Armenians , out one is the C. A low doorway leads into the second chamber , the Holy Sepulchre . jan á Very BILLS . chapel , " being only six feet by seven , or forty - two square feet in area , of wust ejea L'een square ...
Page 13
... four or five feet from this spot is the Rent in the Rock said to have been made at the time of the Crucifixion , and reaching to the centre of the earth . The rent is covered over with a brass slide and a grating , but when these are ...
... four or five feet from this spot is the Rent in the Rock said to have been made at the time of the Crucifixion , and reaching to the centre of the earth . The rent is covered over with a brass slide and a grating , but when these are ...
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... four inches long , three and a half high , and seven feet wide . Close by is the celebrated spring of the arch known as Robinson's Arch , which connected the Temple with the city of Zion by spanning the Tyropcon valley . The fragment ...
... four inches long , three and a half high , and seven feet wide . Close by is the celebrated spring of the arch known as Robinson's Arch , which connected the Temple with the city of Zion by spanning the Tyropcon valley . The fragment ...
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