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Class III or V of the appended catalogue, which will 

 require a lecturer well informed in relation to 



BIBLE LANDS. 



The following descriptions are selected from the 

 " Bible Dictionary," " Bible Lands," " The Land and the 

 Book," " Bayard Taylor's Travels," &c., to suit the slides 

 in Class III. 



As works on Egypt are less common than the Bible 

 Dictionary, a description of each of the twenty Egyptian 

 views is given. 



JERUSALEM. 



(For description of the City, and view from Mount of Olives, see Catalogue, Class III.) 



THE TEMPLE AREA. The Temple Area, the precincts 

 known to Christians as the Mosque of Omar, but called 

 by the Moslems the "Dome of the Rock," the harem 

 more sacred to Moslems than any spot on earth, except 

 Mecca, is jealously guarded by the Turks. It con- 

 tains about thirty-five acres, a large portion of which 

 is sprinkled with pomegranates and cypresses, with here 

 and there a shrine. Above this space rises the platform 

 of the great mosque, paved with marble, and ascended 

 by a flight of white marble steps, surmounted by a beau- 

 tifully carved screen or open gateway, also of white 

 marble. The edifice is an octagon of about one hundred 

 and seventy feet diameter. There are four doors at the 

 opposite cardinal points. The dome is sustained by four 

 great piers, and has twelve arches, which rest on columns. 

 The mosque is very beautiful with a kind of Moorish 

 beauty. The octagonal walls below the dome are cov- 

 ered with porcelain mosaic; the roof inside is of the 

 richest woods, inlaid and carved; the floors of marble 



