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the eastern side of the valley, between the chap. 
Mount of Olives and Mount Moriah\ towards '- 
the bridge over the Kedron, across which our 
Saviour is said to have passed in his visits to 
the Garden of Gethsemane\ we came to the 
sepulchres of the Patriarchs" facing: that part of Sepulchres 
" r of the Pa- 
Jerusalem where the Temple of Solomon was ^riarchs. 
formerly erected. The antiquities which par- 
ticularly bear this name are four in number. 
According to the order in which they occur 
from north to south, they are severally called the 
Sepulchres of Jehosaphat, of Absalom, the Cave of 
St. James, and the Sepulchre ofZechariah. From 
the difficulty of conveying any able artist to 
Jerusalem, and the utter impossibility of finding 
any of the profession there, these monuments 
have never been faithfully delineated. The 
wretched representations given of them in 
books of Travels, convey no adequate idea of 
(2) The Plate engraved for Douhdan's Work (facing p. 120 of his 
' Voyage de la Tar re Sainte,' published at Pa?M in 1657) affords a 
very accurate representation of the situation of the antient sepulchres 
along the eastern side of the Valley of Jehosaphat, at the foot of the 
Mount of Olives, facing Jerusalem. 
(3) " He went forth with his Disciples over the brook Kedron, where 
was a garden, into the which he entered, and his Disciples. And 
Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place, for Jesus oft-times 
resorted thither with his Disciples." John xviii. 1, 2. 
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