JERUSALEM. 365 
Hortus OHveti\ or Garden of Getiisemane. chap. 
Inis place is, not without reason, shewn as the ^ 
scene of our Saviour's agony the night before 
his crucifixion, both from the circumstance of 
the name it still retains, and its situation with 
regard to the city \ Titus, it is true, cut down 
all the wood in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem'' : 
and were this not the case,, no reasonable 
person would regard the trees of the place as 
a remnant of so remote an age ; notwithstanding 
tlie story of tlie olive formerly shewn in the 
Citadel of Athens, and supposed to bear date oiheior 
from the foundation of the city^ But, as a 
spontaneous produce, uninterruptedly resulting 
from the original growth of this part of the 
mountain, it is impossible to view even these 
trees with indifference. We found a grove of 
(5) Matt. xxvi. Mark xiv. Luke xxii. John viii. It is mentioned 
hy St. Jerom. {Vid. Hleron. in Loc. Heh. Ldl. G.) j4drichomius distin/- 
guishes *' Gethsemani, villa ad radices Montis Oliveti" from the 
''^ Hortus Oliveti;" although they are both contiguous. " Hortus 
erat in Monte Oliveti non longe. a Gethseninni rupi cuidutn concava ad- 
httrens Ubi alute Hieronumi desuper Ecclesia erat adificata, 
qutr adhuc ostenditur." Adrichomii Theat. Sanct. p. 170. Colon. \ 629. 
See also Brocard. Itiner. 6. Breidenbach. 14. Jul. Sol. torn. 1X» 
cap. 2. ^'c. ^c. 
(6) Upon the subject of this garden, X)o?<Mfl« offers a genuine spe- 
cimen of Monkish writing. " Cest la ou croissent les lys de I'tnnocence 
entre les cspints de la douleur ; le cypres odorifhent de la devotion; et la 
mirrlic, de la cotnponction ; les pommes d'or, d'lin sensible amour de 
Dieu," ISfc. i{c. Voy. de la T. S. p. 287. Par. iGoT. 
(TJ Joseph. De Bell. Jud. lib. vii. c. 15. Colon. 1691. 
in) See De Chateaubriand's Travels, vol. II. p. 39. Land. 131 L. 
