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Identifier: holylandsyria00carp (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Mount of Olives is climbed by walled and winding roads andmarked with many churches and chapels. Here Jesus often walked withHis disciples, and here He brooded over the city that rejected Him
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The Holy City is a beautifullv framed picture when viewed from abell tower on the Mount of Olives. Across the foreground stretches thewall of the inclosure of the Mosque of Omar AROUND THE WALLS OF THE HOLY CITY with red. Thousands of poppies and anemones growupon the ridges between the gardens, and the peasantsare working the crops. They use plenty of fertilizer and,strange to say, most of that which comes from the cityis taken out through the Dung Gate. It may be fromthis that it got its name. It is a great square hole inthe wall just large enough for men and beasts to pass inand out. It is not far from the temple platform andwithin a stones throw of the Jews wailing place. The southeastern corner of the walls of Jerusalem, and,indeed, a large portion of the eastern walls, are a part ofthe plateau upon which Solomons Temple once stood.In almost the middle of the eastern side of the templeis what is known as the Golden Gate, through whichChrist is said to have made his entry into Jer

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