266 COL. SIR CHARLES M. WATSON, K.C.M.G., C.B., M.A., ON 



To the south of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are the 

 remains of the Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, 

 which was established for the assistance of sick and 

 The poor pilgrims. The ruins of these buildings have 



Muristan. been almost completely obliterated within the last 

 few years by the erection of a new Greek bazaar, 

 while the old Church of St. Mary has been entirely rebuilt by 

 the Germans. It is satisfactory that the British branch of the 

 Order of St. John still carry on the good work of 

 British their predecessors, as they maintain an excellent 

 Ophthalmic hospital for the treatment and cure of ophthalmia, 



^ ' that terrible scourge of the East. 

 Street in The streets of Jerusalem are very narrow and 



Jerusalem, many of them are very steep. They are therefore 

 unsuited for wheel traffic and even for beasts of 

 burden are not always convenient. In some cases the 

 houses are built over the streets, an arrangement due to 

 the fact that space is limited. One of the relics of 

 The Ecce antiquity which is visited by every tourist is the 

 Homo Arch. Arch, where, according to tradition, Pontius Pilate 

 presented Jesus Christ to the people. But it could 

 not have been built at the time of the CruciKxion, and probably 

 dates from the time when the Emperor Hadrian rebuilt the 

 city — A.D. 132 — and called it ^lia Capitolina. 

 rpj^g Going towards the north the Damascus Gate is 



Damascus reached, the principal entrance to the city on this 

 Gate. side. The present gate only dates from the 



sixteenth century, but it probably stands on the 

 site of a much older gate in the wall built by 

 King Agrippa in A.D. 41, some remains of which 

 are 'still visible. 



Proceediiio- throuoh the Damascus Gate on the 



Damascus 

 Gate 



without. north, the Lecturer traced the wall on its northern 

 and eastern sides, showing the spot where the 

 crusader, Godfrey of Bouillon, ejected an entrance into the 

 city in 1099, subsequently becoming King of Jerusalem in 

 fact, though not in name, for he said that where his Master 

 had worn a crown of thorns he would not wear a crown of gold. 



From the Damascus Gate the wall of the city runs east and 

 west, and nearly opposite is a hill in which is a curiously 

 shaped cavern known as Jeremiah's grotto. Not 

 The North far from this is an old rock-cut tomb, which has of 

 Wall. late years been assumed by some people to have 



been the real scene of the Ilesurrection, but there 



