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tosa, and in the Church of the Sepulchre, which, if not perfectly accurate, may be 
awful at all events, in default of a more correct method of levelling, to call attention 
to this important element in the discussion. The following refer to the Temple 
irca:— 
Ihcrt is a small rise near the Governor's gate of. 9'G feet. 
The point where the Via Dolorosa crosses the upper part of the 
Val Tyroptean is below' the Temple area. — 27 ‘ >» 
At the crossiug of the Via Dolorosa with the street leading to 
the Damascus gate above T. A. + 38*5 „ 
The pavement of the Church of the Sepulchre . 07‘5 ,. 
At the crossing of the Via Dolorosa with I’atriarch-street . 115 „ 
The highest point at the N.W. corner of the city .. 203 „ 
Tlifeit appears there is a rapid slope fron the N.W. corner of the hill on which 
^ eity IS built, down to the valley of the Tyroptcnn of about one in six or seven. 
I re ,ae second wall, to have excluded the traditionary site of Golgotha, must 
tarried along the brow of the hill, in such a manner, as to have left a steep 
w l*ilc within the city would have been in a deep hollow, and would 
^ so contracted at this part as not to have afforded sufficient space for the 
Titus Inu “ tUac sa *d t° Two been assembled in the city at the time of its capture 
i in/ncp ™ ag ' ne ^ nw » euf h itn admirable site for fortification, an 
HOOv- P q s * louil1 h« vc hern left outside of the wall at a distance of 
r: *rst ia . r f i • 1 nc elycl would unquestionably have rendered the west the 
, j" U ’ c Clt y> which would not have been overlooked by assailants, who, 
iit the w=u U T S a, t?cked from the north, where the want of natural defences really 
f» .b “,' hat the vulnerable. 
tie city m(lsf | aon ’ 1 Tuiuk that the commanding eminence at the N.W. corner of 
ave " een included in any scheme of fortification of Jerusalem. 
Sume Sect j i onal diagrams illustrative of the Changes in the Bed of the 
lver Mersey and its Approaches. Bg J. Boult*. 
e Site of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. By J. Feugusson. 
'c owr/ Antarctic Currents, and their Connexion with the Fate of 
■Mlusion ohn Fmnk >*n. By A. (J. Findla y, F.jR.G.S. 
filling the cuitV 0 - l ^ ortner paper, read tu the Association at Hull last year, 
IluiU ght some r * °r t '* IG ^lantic and Pacific Oceans, in the latter of which it 
J_ J| y t'xist C( ] in t],., e,llurea were described. It was shown that a great simi- 
tf i the tropics w i.: 'j vc,ne| ft 9 - °f the two oceans, a system of westerly drifts be- 
*° utk from the pn „*r 011 toiriving at the western side of each ocean turned north 
‘oath n.. ,ee( luator on each si, i.„,,.i ._ i . . . ...n.., 
- "UIQ me Pnnaf . - "'.’‘t.tii ,MUU k uvu uuuii luj uni hdi tu 
tfthey passLj . r <m eac l* a ‘ f l p of it, and recurving when beyond lat. 30° north 
eastward, and re-entering their course on the eastern sides, 
''id (l ," re Si°u.s were J rculat ° r y system. In the present paper it was shown how 
Bi> irt , ta<i poles, and w ‘^‘ movements, and how tropical warmth 
I t zones. ^ co ° m B € ® iC ta of the extreme climates were brought into 
“O' S* ^°' Vs ft°'u west'tf 11 S0U ^ K ‘ ln edge of the southern connecting current, 
’fiudj' a ^y B,e m of south p?* 1 , a " >UIU * ft"* globe between tin* latitudes of 40° and 
t>y ffie t,, e8e south-east‘ r,lls is found impelled by the prevailing north-west 
lT'»cof States FxniV s " L ^ e trr ‘ rr( l s t®P by step from the observations made 
rl ‘- a 'n,a r r L l '| S !' lltl - Weddell f. x l ,ctli,ion * Sir James Ross, Dalle ay, D’Urville, 
tu aile feature of t h,.' V l ! k ' i s ’“ c . arl . v around the Antarctic Circle, showing 
♦ * ,y ' Var( h an impeneuatlo- 0l V f . tl,c 8U1 . fa « waters below 55“ and 65* S. 
hT ^ ,t * e for 1 ' 01 ' 16 ® °f this ' ^ ,c y Earner, which encircles the South Pole at the 
lnv estig a pon. * S because the subject has been referred to a Com- 
