puted. 
314 THE HOLY LAND. 
oblong, as upon a pedestal'. The interior of 
this strange fabric is divided into two parts. 
Having entered the first part, which is a kind 
of antechapel, they shew you, before the mouth 
of what is called the Sepulchre, the stone 
^ , , whereon the Ano-el sat : this is a block of white 
Its Ider- o 
tity dis- marble, neither corresponding with the mouth of 
the sepulchre, nor with the substance from which 
it must have been hewn; for the rocks of 
Jerusalem are all of common compact limestone". 
Shaw, speaking of the Holy Sepulchre, says^, 
that all the surrounding rocks were cut away, 
to form the level of the church ; so that now it 
is "a Grotto above ground:'' but even this is 
(1) See the Vignette to this Chapter, taken from Doubdan, {Voyage 
de la T. S. p. 82. Par. 1657.) which shews the Sanctuary as it for- 
merly existed, with pointed arches. But the Reader wishing to have 
further testimony with regard to the former existence of '''pointed 
arches" at the " Holy Sepulchre," may consult the accurate delinea- 
tions made of those arches upon the spot by Bernardino, an artist of 
Gallipoli, {" Trattato delle piante et immagini de sacri Edifizi di Terra 
Sancta," &c. Firenza, 1620.) as they were made expressly for the use 
of architects desirous of introducing models of the Holy Sepulchre into 
ecclesiastical buildings. Bernardino's work exhibits the building as 
it existed prior to its reparation, when the Coptic chapel was added on 
its western side. At present, only one pni7ited arch rennains ; and this 
js over the entrance, as engraved in Le Bruyn's Travels, torn. II. 
/>. 242. Pf/r. 1725. 
(2) According to some, however, the stone belonging to the mouth 
of the Sepulchre is preserved elsewhere; and this is said to be a part of 
the toynh, placed to receive the kisses of the pilgrims. 
(.3) Shaw's Travels, p. 264. Lo7id. 1757. 
