JERUSALEM. 321 
barely mentionins^ their situation, and the cir- chap, 
. VII. 
cumstances of their discovery. We had been ' 
to examine the hill which now bears the name 
of Sion : it is situate upon the south side of Je- 
rusalem, part of it being excluded by the wall of 
the present city, which passes over the top of 
the mount. If this be indeed Mount Sion, the 
prophecy' concerning it, that the plough should 
pass over it, has been fulfilled to the letter ; for 
such labours were actually going on wheii we 
arrived. Here the Turks have a mosque over 
what they call the Tomb of David. No Christian 
can gain admittance ; and as we did not choose 
to loiter among the other legendary sanctities of 
the mount*, having quitted the city by what is 
called " Sion Gate\" we descended into a dingle 
or trench, called Tophet, or Gehinnon, by Sandys. 
As we reached the bottom of this narrow dale, 
sloping towards the Valley of Jehosaphat, we ob- Discovery 
served upon the sides of the opposite mountain, JJe ^u^J^r 
(which appears to be the same called by Sandys 
(3) Micahlu. 12. 
(4) That is to say '' where Christ did eate his last supper ; where 
also, after his resurrection, the doores being shut, he appeared to his 
Apostles, when they received the Holy Ghost ; where Peter converted 
three thousand ; and where, as they say also, they held the first Coun- 
cell, in which the Apostles Creed was decreed." See Sandys' Trmeh, 
p. 185. Lend. 1637. 
(5) See the author's Plan of Jerusalem, 
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