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Title: The Australian abroad on branches from the main routes round the world
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hingston, James, b. 1830
Subjects: Australia -- Description and travel East Asia -- Description and travel New Zealand -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Melbourne, W. Inglis
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ut very much on the cobble-stones, here badly laiddown. They project some inches above the ground or sink some inchesinto it, and have unpleasant interspaces, so that one can walk neitherbetween nor upon them. Their surfaces are worn quite smooth andslippery. Nowhere had I found such difficult walking. The first street B B 2 404 The Main Routes Round the World. from Joppa gate has the name of Christian Street, and is the leadingthoroughfare of that one of the four quarters of Jerusalem named the Christianquarter. The other three divisions are called the Jewish, the Mohammedan,and the Armenian quarters. Christian Street is about ten feet wide, with a steep roadway some five feetbroad. It is quite a punishment to walk on that, and the narrow side walksto it are even worse. Fifty yards of it are as fatiguing as two miles elsewhere.There is some difficult walking at the end of the Black Valley at Killarney,and it is nasty to get over the waxed floors of Versailles, but they are as nothing
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A JEW S STORE, JERUSALEM. to this trouble. On all sides rubbish in heaps and excreta of all kinds are tobe seen. The filth of the city is beyond belief. For its dirt and stenches thepeople deserve that the cholera should come quickly, or. in its stead, one ofthose plagues that were troublesome here of olden time. Every one who hasbeen in Jerusalem will endorse all that much and with expletive additions. People who exist amid such filth, and add to it daily, well knowing thatdecent folk from far lands are continually coming to see their city, should becleared off the face of the earth as mere nuisances to it. When visitors are Jerusalem Street-Scenes. 405 expected, citizens elsewhere generally put their house in decent order. To thisJerusalem come travellers from all parts of the world, and no part of it receivesthem so badly. Folks might stay here and enrich the wretchedly poor place bytheir expenditure, if it were made only bearable. As it is, it takes ones appetiteaway to walk in it

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