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from their prayers, Jews from their traffic, and chap. 
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tjven Moslems from their tobacco or their opium, ' 
ill search of something new. 
Thus attended, we reached the Gate of c^te of 
Damascus about seven o'clock in the evening'. 
Cfukeaubriand calls this Bab-el- Hamona, or Bab- 
el-Cham, the Gate of the Column\ " When," 
says he, " Simon the Cyrenia^i met Christ, he 
was coming from the ^-a^g of Damascus ;' thereby 
adopting a topography suited to the notions 
generally entertained of the relative situation of 
Mount Calvary and the Pr^torium, with regard 
to this gate; 6'mo?z being described^ as "coming 
out of the country,"' and therefore, of course, 
entering by that gate of the city contiguous to 
'* the dolorious wayT It were, indeed, a rash identity of 
imdertaking to attempt any refutation of opinions '^^|^® 
so long entertained concerning what are called I'^^'^^s." 
" the Holy Places'' of this memorable city. 
"Never," says the author now cited\ "was 
subject less known to modern readers, and 
never was subject more completely exhausted." 
(1) Thursday, July the 9th. 
(2) Travels iu Greece, Palestine, Sec. vol. II. p. 88. Land. 1811. 
(3) " As they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon a Ojrc- 
nian, coming out of the country." Luke xxiii. 26. 
(4) Chdteaubriand's Tra\e\s, vol.11, p. 2. Lond. l?.ll. 
