beyond, towards Scopos, where Titus encamped. Bezetha, the third hill, crowned with a Turkish mosque, and more thinly inhabited, is on the extreme right of the city. In the centre is the great platform of the temple on Moriah, now occupied by the Mosques of Omar and El Aksa. This was the work of art-the upper slope of the hill being cut away, and the lower terraced up to form a level area. In the centre, and, as we suppose, occupying the site of the temple and its inner court, is the Mosque of Omar, and its broad esplanade of marble; the ascent to it is by gates of elegant proportion. The immense space of the inclosure is adorned with groups of plane, cypress, and olive-trees. At its left-hand extremity is the smaller Mosque of El Aksa; and bounding it at the right-hand corner is a prominent group of buildings, on a rocky foundation, with a lofty minaret adjoining. This is now the governor's house, and it is undoubtedly the site of Fort Antonia which was on a precipice at the north-west angle of the temple courts. tispiece.) From this point we shall (Compare Fron hereafter give a view. All along the further side of the enclosure is a line of colleges, &c., which, like the former cloister of the temple, on the same site, overlooks the city within. All under the left hand, or south-east portion of the enclosure, are extensive subterranean vaults, to which the entrance is beneath the corner overhanging the Kid The ron. The remains of the bridge to Zion, restored in our general view of the ancient city, (Frontispiece,) are on the opposite side, near the corner, of course not seen. "Golden Gate," walled up, is seen, with its two Roman arches, in the temple wall, not far from St. Stephen's Gate. The massive ancient masonry of the great enclosing wall is particularly conspicuous, at the south-east, or left-hand angle, impending over the abyss; the rest of the walls around the city are Saracenic, and of far inferior construction. All beneath the wall of the temple is sunk the Valley of the Kidron, bare and gray; it sweeps round from the right-hand corner of the view. We may trace the path by which we left the city, from among the olives of Gethsemane. St. Stephen's Gate, The is a rocky cemetery-the Jewish burial-ground. white top of the monument, called Absalom's Tomb, and the flat grave-slabs, are seen between the olives. The narrow ridge, sloping down obliquely from the angle of the temple wall towards the left, and dotted with olives, is the ridge of Ophel, just above the Fountain of the Virgin. The village of Siloam, among the tombs, is seen below the foreground, beyond the road to Jericho, along which camels are passing. Beyond the city extends a bleak ridge-the battle-ground and point of attack alike of the Assyrians, Romans, Saracens, Crusaders, and Turks. The isolated hill, in the distance, is |