282 THE HOLY LAND. 
— Its Identity dispvted— Its praent Appearance — Other 
Relics — Plan for the Survey of the City — S'lon Gate — 
Discovery made by the Author — Inference derived from 
it — Possible Site of Golgotha, or Calvary — Greek In- 
scriptions — Remarkable Tomb — Hebrew Inscriptions — 
Conjecture respecting Mount Sion. 
CHAP. WJ 
VII. W E left Napolose one hour after midnight, that 
journiy to we might reach Jerusalem early in the same 
Jerusalkm. ^^^ y^^ were however much deceived con- 
cerning the distance. Our guides represented 
the journey as a short excursion of five hours • 
it proved to be a most fatiguing pilgrimage of 
eighteen'. The road was mountainous, rocky, 
(1) Authors disagree very much concerning this distance. Reland, 
who compares the computed measure, by time, with the Roman miles 
(Vid. " Mensuree quibus veleres locorum intervalla metiuntur" PaleBsC. 
lllust. lib. ii. c 1.) makes an hour's journey equivalent to three miles ; and 
tTiis corresponds with its relative proportion to a French league, or to three 
English miles. But, in the valuable map wherein he has exhibited the 
distances of places in Roman miles, from Josephus, Eusebius, Arrian, 
Diodorus Siculus, and the Itinerary of Antoninus, ( Vid. cap. 5. id. lib.) 
he states the distance between Napolose and Jerusalem as equal to forty 
Roman miles ; that is to say, twenty-eight from Napolose to Bethel, and 
twelve from Bethel to Jerusalem. Again, in estimating the extent of the 
Holy Land ( Vid. torn. I. p. 423. Traj. Bat. 1714.) he gives, from Jose- 
phus, Eusebius, and an antient anonymous Itinerary, the following distances : 
Ab Hierosolymis ad Bethel, ex Itinerar. veter. Hieros. ") 
. -n, , . {mil. 12. 
et Eusebio J 
Inde ad Neapolin, ex eodem Itiner mil. 28, vel 29. 
The fact is, that, notwithstanding the numerous authors who have written 
in illustration of the geography of this country, the subject still remains 
undecided. We have.no accurate map of the Halt/ Land; and were we to 
collect the distances from books of Travels the labour would be fruitless. 
Pkocas' 
