JERUSALEM. 323 
find fitted to the grooves, by way of closing the chap. 
entrances. Of such a nature were, indisputably, 
the tombs of the sons oiHeth, of the Kings of 
Isi-ael, of Lazarus, and of Christ. This has 
been also proved by Shaw^; but the subject 
has been more satisfactorily elucidated by the 
learned Quaresmius, in his dissertation concerning 
antient sepulchres'* . The ccemeteries of the 
Antients were universally excluded from the 
precincts of their cities \ In order, therefore, 
to account for the seeming contradiction implied 
by the situation of the place now shewn as the 
tomb of the Messiah, it is pretended that it was 
originally on the outside of the walls of Jeru- 
salem; although a doubt must necessarily arise 
as to the want of sufficient space for the popu- 
lation of the city, between a boundary so situate 
and the hill which is now called Mount Sion. 
(3) Shaw's Travels, p. 263. Land. 1757. 
(4) Vide cap. vii. (" deformd et qualitate veterum Sepulchrorion.'' 
Elucid. T. S. Quaresmiiy torn. II. p. 127- ^nlv. 1639. 
(5) This is evident, from a view of the ruins of all antient cities in 
the East, as well as from the accounts left by authors concerning their 
mode of bnrial. In a preceding chapter of Quaresmius, {cap, vi. lib. iv. 
torn. II. p. 125.) " DE SEPULCHRORUM SITU," he says, ^' Quoad locum et 
situm sepulchrorum dicendutn est, eu eligi solita extra civitates in sub- 
wbiis et hortis." It was a violation of the laws of the country to bury 
any corpse within the walls of a city. {Vid. Cicer. 2. de Legibus.) 
Would it were so among modern nations ! " Hominem MORruoM 
(.inquit Plato, lib, xii. de liegibus) in urbem ne sepelito." Quaresm. 
Hid, /?. 126. 
