GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTENTS. 
Fountain Siloa, and Oak Rogel — Mount of Olives — Fiew 
from the summit — Differaice ietween the Modern and An^ 
tient City — Situation of Mount Sion — Pagan Remains upon 
Mount Olivet — Their possible origin — Ascent of David — 
Lake Asphaltites — General Appearance of Judcea — Mi- 
raculous Impression of our Saviour's Foot — Garden of 
Gethsemane — Olives of the Mount — Tomb of the Virgin 
Mary — Sepulchres of the Patriarchs— Bazars — Sepulchres 
of the Kings — their real history — MosauE op Omar — 
Existing evidence of Julian's discomfiture — Observations of 
Mosheirn and Moyle — Greek and Armenian Convents — State 
of Politics in Jerusalem. 
CHAP. IX. 
p. 395. 
THE HOLY LAND.— JERUSALEM TO BETHLEHEM, JAFFA, 
AND ACRE. 
Journey to Bethlehem — Singular example of dexterity in a 
Goat — Fiew of Bethlehem — Prospect of the Dead Sea — 
Erroneous notions entertained of this lake — Cause of those 
opinions — Authors by whom it is described — Precautions 
upon entering Bethlehem — Descent into the Valley — Critical 
examination of a passage in Josephus — David's Well — Inte- 
resting circumstances connected with its history — Antiquity 
of Eastern Wells — Account of Bethlehem — Tomb of Rachel 
— Caverns — Terebinthine Vale — Valley of Jeremiah — Vege- 
table Productions — Arabs — Bethoor — Rama — History of 
that City — 5^. George of Diospolis — Ravages caused by the 
plague — Jajh — Improbability of the supposed Massacre by 
Bonaparte — Antient history of Jaffa — Voyage along the 
Coast — Ccesarea — Return to Acre. 
