Notices in Palestine. sai $45 
Art. XIX.—Notice of various facts relating to a ; 
in a letter from the Rev. Isaac Brrp to Prof. HALL 
TO PROFESSOR SILLIMAN. 
THE following i is an extract of a cape tie in reply to 
a communication, addressed by me to the late Reverend 
PLINY Fisk, Missionary to the Holy nas in which were 
a number of inquiries, relating to the Geology and Mineralo- 
gy of that most ee country. If you deem it worthy 
of a place in the American Journal of Science and Arts, it is 
at your service. ' eee truly. F. HAL. 
“As to the garden seeds, we are sorry to say, that since 
our departure from America we have never, until a few weeks 
since, had a foot of land at our disposal, and that which is 
now secured to us is not convenient in itself, nor in its vicin- 
ity to our present dwellings. The late Greek invasion has 
interrupted our plans with regard to it. The suburbs in which 
we live are, for a mile or two in extent around the city, one 
continued orchard of mulberry trees, for the production of _ 
silk. We sometimes call these suburbs gardens; but, al- 
scarcely any thing can be found exhibiting the aspect of a 
_ American garden. 
“ The few questions you suggested to Mr F., had helived, 
would no doubt have been decisively and correctly answered. 
In regard to the senakcans of our Saviour, I am sure Mr. F. 
had strong doubts whether it on identified, the 
place now shewn as such, being from top to bottom, entirely 
an artificial structure, exhibiting not the least vestige of the 
original rock in which the sepulchre was hewn. But I do 
net think he had the smallest leaning to the opinion of Dr. 
Clarke. You wish a specimen of the rock in which are the 
sepulchres of the Hill of Offence. I have none by nie, but 
have no doubt it is a soft limestone, as are the “ Sepulchres 
sepulchres, you inquire whence came ‘the marble of 
which they are composed? I answer, the marble, if marble 
it can be called, was furnished on the ground itself, and re- re- 
mains just where nature placed it. All that art has doné is, is, 
to cut away the surrounding gs Accordingly, i et 
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