JERUSALEM. 341) 
received their origin; and having done this, and ^^\^^' 
cast a view over the state of Christianity since *— ^ — ' 
that period — the absurdities believed and pro- 
pagated — the gross interpolations of Scripture- 
record admitted and revered — we shall perhaps 
no longer wonder at any difficulty of reconcihng 
Helenas illustrations with Gospel-history, but 
admire the moderation which contents itself 
with shewing the place " ivhere Adams head ivas 
discovered" instead of the head itself. 
Continuing our researches along this dingle. Further 
as it inclines towards the east, before its June- thTjewish 
tion with the larger valley of Jehosaphat, we SSr^*^" 
came to some sepulchres, which had not wholly 
escaped the notice of former travellers. We 
find them obscurely alluded to in the Travels 
of Thevenot: the sepulchres he mentions are 
evidently those we observed here, because he 
notices the existence of paintings in a Crypt, 
called by him the Cave of the jipostles, near 
Aceldama\ We found such remains upon the Aceldama. 
same side of the mountain we have been 
describing, and near the place commonly 
shewn as Aceldama *, or the Field of Blood. The 
(3) See Thevenot's Work, entitled, " Travels into the Levant," chap, 
xlix. p. 204. Lond. 1687. 
(4) This place, purchased by the Chief- Priests to bury strangers in, 
now belongs to the Armenians. It is still, as it ever was, a place of 
burial ; 
