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Title: Letters from the Holy land
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Butler, Elizabeth, Lady, 1846-1933
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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our camp life was to begin that night.Everything struck us as in excellent order, ourhorses, saddles and bridles, the tents, the servantsand all. Those Pools of Solomon are threeimmense reservoirs of water which the Wise Kingmade to supply the Temple at Jerusalem. Myriadsof frogs were enlivening the evening air with theirmultitudinous croakings which increased to deafen-ing proportions as night closed in. I took a hastysketch. JMuch hyssop grows here, * Asperges me,Domine, hyssopo et mundabor. 14/// ///;/•//. I was greatly pleased with my first nightunder canvas. To have grass and stones andlittle aromatic herbs for a bedroom carpet was a SOLOMONS POOLS, NEAR JERUSALEM,LOOKING TOWARDS DEADSEA Shows the central one of three reservoirs which arebuilt one below the other on a slope inclining towardsvalley of the Dead Sea. Measurements of Solomons Pools :—Upper one,380 ft. by 236 ft., 25 ft. deep ; middle one, 423 ft. by250 ft., 39 ft. deep ; lower one, 582 ft. by 207 ft.,50 ft. deep.
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LETrERS FROM THE HOLY LAND 39 new and delightful sensation to me. We startedthis morning at sunrise, my sketching thingshandily strapped to my saddle by W.s directions,in a flat straw aumoniere. Isaac had swathed histarboush in a magnificent cufia, and our retinuewore the baggy garb of Syria. W. rode a steel-grey Arab, I a silver-grey, Isaac a roan-grey, andthe man, whom we call the flying column,because he is to accompany us with the lunchbags, while the heavy column with baggage, tents,etc., goes on ahead by short-cuts, rode a chestnut.We passed through Bethlehem and down to theField of the Shepherds, where I completed, aswell as I could in the heat and glare, my sketchbegun the other day. A group of some twentyRussian pilgrims arrived as we did, and we sawthem in the grotto of the sheepfold, each holdinga lighted taper and responding to the chant oftheir old priest, who had a head which would doadmirably for a picture of Abraham. These poormen were in fur coats and high clumsy boot

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