t)6(i ChateaithriaiKTs Travels hi Greece^ Palesiine, Uc. 
Near this sprinor is s.hewn the spot 
?^bere Isaiah was pot todentli. Here you 
also find a village called Siloan : at the 
loot of tills village is another t’ountain, 
denominated in Scripture Rogel. Op¬ 
posite to this fountain is a third, which 
receives its name from the Blessed Vir- 
gfn. It is conjectured that Mary came 
hither to fetch water, as the daughters of 
Laban resorted to the well from which 
Jacob removed the stone. The Virgin’s 
fountain mingles its stream with that of 
tiie louutain of Siloe. 
VALLEY or JEHOSirAPSfAT. 
Tiie valley of Jehnshaphat is also call¬ 
ed in Scripture the Valley ofShavt h, the 
King’s Valley, the Valley of Melchise- 
deck. It was in the valley of Melchise- 
deck that the king of Sodom went to 
meet Abraham, to congratulate him on 
his victory over the five kings. Moloch 
and Beelphegor were worshipped in this 
same valley. It was afteivvards distin¬ 
guished by the name of Jehoshaphat, 
because that king caused his tomb to he 
constructed there. 
The valley of Jehoshaphat exhibits a 
desolate appearance: the west side is a 
high chalk cliff, supporting the walls of 
the city, above which you perceive Joru- 
safem itself ; wltile the east side is form¬ 
ed by the Mount of Olives and the 
Mount of Offence, Offemionh^ 
thus denominated from Solomon’s idola¬ 
try. These two contiguous hills are 
rrearly naked, and of a dull red color. 
On their desolate sides are seen liere and 
there a few black and parched vines, 
some groves of wdld olive-trees, wastes 
covered with hyssop, chapels, oratories, 
and mosques in ruins. At the bottom 
of the valley you discover a bridge of a 
single arch, thrown across the channel 
of the brook Cedron. The stonesnn the 
Jew’s cemetery look like a heap of rub¬ 
bish at the foot of the Mount of Offence, 
below the Arabian village of Siloan, the 
paltry houses of which can scarcely be 
distinguished from the surrounding se¬ 
pulchres. Three antique monuments, 
the tombs ot Zachariah, Jehoshaphat, 
and Absalom, apjiear conspicuous amid 
this scene of desolation. From the dull¬ 
ness of Jerusalem, whence no smoke 
rises, no noise proceeds ; from the soli¬ 
tude of these hills, where no living crea¬ 
ture is to he seen ; from the ruinous state 
Oi all these tombs, overthrown, broken, 
and half open, you would imagine that 
the last trump had already sounded^ and 
that the valley of Jehoshaphat was about 
to render up its dead. 
THE GARDEN OF orjVET. 
On the brink and near the source of 
Cedron, we entered the garden of Olivet. 
At the entrance of this garden we 
alighted from our horses, and proceeded 
on foot to the stations of the Mount. 
The village of Gethsemani was at some 
distance from the garden of Oliver. On 
leaving the Virgin’s sepulchre, we went 
to see the grotto in the garden of Olivet,, 
wlidre our Saviour sweated blood as he 
littered the words: “ Father, if it be pos¬ 
sible, let this cup pass from me.” 
On leaving the grotto of the Cup of 
Bitterness, and ascending by a rugged 
w’inding path, the drogrnau stopped us 
near a rock, where it is said that Christ, 
surveying the guilty cityv bewailed tha 
approaching desolation of Sion. 
You now ascend a little higher, and 
eome to the ruins, or rather to tlie naked 
site, of a chapel. An invariable tradi¬ 
tion rfecords that in this place Christ re¬ 
cited the Lord’s Prayer. 
“ And it came to pass, that, as he was 
praying in a certain place, when he 
ceased, one of his disciples said unto hint. 
Lord, teach us to pray as John also 
taiigiit his disciples. And he said unto 
them, When ye pray, say: “Our Father 
which art in Heaven,” &o. 
Thirty paces further, bearing a little 
towards the north, is an olive-tree,* at 
the foot of which the Son of the Eternal 
Ai biter foretold the general judgment. 
Proceeding about fifty paces farther on 
the mountain, you come to a small 
mosque, of an octagonal form, the relic 
of a church formerly erected on the spot 
from which Christ ascended to heaven 
after his resurrection. On the rock may 
be discerned the print of a- man’s letc 
foot. I am silent, out of respect, with¬ 
out however being convinced, before 
authorities of considerable weight; St. 
An gustine, St. Jerome, St. Paulina, 
Suipicius Severus, the venerable Bede, 
all travellers, ancient and modern, assure 
us that this is a print of the foot of Jesus 
Christ f 
THE CITADEL, 
On leaving the convent wm proceeded 
to the citadel. No person was formerly 
* The olive-tree may be said to be immor¬ 
tal, since a fresh tree coastantly springs up 
from the same root. 
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