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 forther, 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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