shown an orifice encircled witli gold, which is pointed out as that in which the Cross was 
fixed, while on each side are two similar orifices, for the crosses of the two malefactors. The 
chapel is lighted with rich and massive lamps, which burn night and day. 
We have taken it for granted, that this is the actual site of the Crucifixion; notwith¬ 
standing the known fact, that the Cross was raised outside the city; for, it seems singularly 
improbable that Calvary, which was an established place of public execution, should have 
been forgotten in the lapse of less than three centuries. The city has considerably changed 
its position; and it is more likely that the walls should have been extended to Calvary, in 
some of those periods which were too disturbed for exact record, than that the mother of 
the Emperor, furnished with all the means of inquiry, and attended by the leading authori¬ 
ties, should have been totally deceived in the express object of her investigation. But 
Calvary was the spot first sought for; and the only reason discoverable, why the present 
site should have been fixed on in preference to all others, is, that it was the true one. 
MOUNT TABOR, FROM THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON. 
Tabor is a beautiful mountain, wholly of limestone, and rising about a thousand feet 
above the great Plain of Esdraelon. Among the Arabs it bears only the general name of 
Jebel-el-Tur. It stands out alone towards the S.E. from the high land around Nazareth, 
while the north-eastern arm of the Plain sweeps round its base, and extending far to the 
North, forms a broad table-land, bordering on the Valley of the Jordan and the Lake of 
Tiberias. Seen from the S.W. it has the appearance of the segment of a sphere, but from 
the W.N.W. that of a truncated cone. The summit is a little oblong plain or basin . 1 
“ The present view,” observes the Artist, “ was taken while crossing the Plain, on the 
road from Jenin to Nazareth. It is the very opposite to the ruggedness and grandeur given 
to its form in the sketches which I had hitherto seen. Though a fine hill, it has long lost 
all claims to the picturesque; the labours of the ancient population having cleared and 
shaped it into its present form. In many instances this process may be still traced by the 
terraces remaining on the sides, though often, by time, undistinguisliable in colour from the 
rocks on which they are raised. The general character of the hills of Palestine is round¬ 
ness, arising from the same cause .” 2 
The figures in the foreground are a caravan of Christian pilgrims, whom the Artist 
found resting during the mid-day, on their return from Damascus to Jerusalem. 
1 Biblical Researches, iii. 211, &c. 
2 Roberts’s Journal. 
