CHAPTER X. 
MARTHA’S VINEYARD.—ELINDO AVENUE.—THE HOLY 
SEPULCHRE.—WASHINGTON HALL. 
WE leave the Pass of El Ghor at the foot of 
Martha’s Vineyard. 
The avenue which contains Martha’s Vine- 
yard is elevated twenty feet above the Pass 
of El Ghor, and is reached, with considerable 
difficulty, by ascending a steep ladder near 
Hebe’s Spring. 
Of this curiosity, Bayard Taylor expressed 
his impressions in the following language: 
““We were now, according to the guide’s prom- 
ises, on the threshold of wonders. Before pro- 
ceeding farther, we stopped at Hebe’s Spring, 
‘which fills a natural basin in the bottom of a 
niche made on purpose to contain it. We then 
climbed a perpendicular ladder, passing through 
a hole in the ceiling barely large enough to admit 
our bodies, and found ourselves at the entrance 
of a narrow, lofty passage leading upward. 
When all had made the ascent, the guides exult- 
ingly lifted their lamps and directed our eyes to 
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