332 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, which separated Sion from Mount Moriak, 
and extended as far as the Fountain Silouy 
where it joined the Valley of Jehosaphat. The 
sepulchres will then appear to have been situate 
beneath the walls of the citadel, as was the case 
in many antient cities. Such was the situation 
of the Grecian sepulchres in the Crimea, be- 
longing to the antient city of Chersonesus, in 
the Minor Peninsula of the IIeracleotce\ The 
Inscriptions already noticed seem to favour this 
position : and if hereafter it should ever be 
confirmed, " the remarkable things belonging 
to Mount Sion," of which Pococke says'" there 
are no remains in the hill now bearins: that 
appellation, will in fact be found here, " the 
Garden of the Kings, near the Pool of Siloam, 
where Manasseh and Amon, kings of Judah, were 
buried;" the ccemetery of the kings oi Judah; 
the traces and remains of Herod's palaces, 
called after the names of Ccesar and Agrippa ; 
" together with the other places mentioned by 
Nehemiah\''' All along the side of this moun- 
tain, and in the rocks above the Valley of 
Jehosaphat, upon the eastern side o^ Jerusalem, 
(1) See the First Part of these Travels, octavo Edit. vol. II. p. 209. 
(2) description of the East, vol. II. Part I, p. 9. J^ond. 1715. 
(3) Ibid. 
