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Kadi of Jerusalem, who having been deposed by the 
government, commenced an insurrection in the house 
of the sepulchre of David, where he assembled the Be- 
douins, and from whence he threatened the city. 
Before the only door by which persons enter the 
Temple, there is a quadrilateral space surrounded by a 
little baliustrade. The Christians assert that the body of 
Christ was embalmed there, before it was placed in the 
sepulchre. 
Near the sanctum sanctorum of the Greek church is 
a staircase leading to a chapel. There is in the ascent an 
altar upon the left formed of the native rock, in the 
middle of which is a hole four or five inches in diameter; 
this is asserted to be the place where the cross was fixed. 
About three feet distant is a perpendicular fissure in the 
rock; the monk assured me that it opened originally at 
the death of Jesus Christ, and that this aperture termi- 
nated in hell. 
At the distance of three or four paces towards the 
right is an altar, before which is a square space, which 
is revered as the spot where Christ was crucified. Thus 
Mount Calvary, formerly without the city, is now nearly 
in the centre of the modern Jerusalem. 
At the side of the Temple which encloses the tomb 
of Jesus Christ, is a house inhabited by a community 
of Mussulman monks. This building has windows 
which look into the Temple, which circumstance has 
sometimes occasioned inconveniences to the Christian 
monks. After a short visit to this Temple, I went to 
the Jews' synagogue. Poor people! a wretched build- 
ing, or rather barrack composed of three or four rooms, 
the ceilings of which may be touched with the hand; a 
court-yard still smaller, the whole covered with cob- 
webs and filth, constitutes the present Temple of the 
