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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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in the rock of themount. Its people may almost be called Troglodytes, and said to dwell incaves. Tombs that have been excavated from the rock here have some ofthem had a rude projecting stone porch added to them, and so made abodesfor the living—in which term I include goats, donkeys, and mules that alsofind shelter here—as a final use to which the resting-places of former greatnessmay be put. Three tombs of striking appearance, beyond Siloam, and at the foot ofOlivet, attract attention, and are said to be those of Zacharias, Jehoshaphat,and Absalom, as also of half-a-dozen others, by those wranglers who mustdiffer on everything or die. The tomb of Absalom is quite a temple, thirtyfeet high, with a conical roof to it. In memory of his bad behaviour to hisfather, and as evidence that our evil deeds live after us, quite a stony mound israised hereabout. It is made up of stones flung at this tomb by Israelites,who thus expressed their opinion of Davids bad son. Hassans theory is that
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fllllllllllllllllll 11 ^1 ^ ;. r^iM^ai Around Mount Olivet, 399 it is the pillar reared by Absalom to commemorate himself, he having nodescendants, as is detailed in the eighteenth verse of the eighteenth chapter ofthe Second Book of Samuel— Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken andreared up for himself a pillar, which is in the kings dale : for he said, I haveno son to keep my name in remembrance ; and he called the pillar after hisown name, and it is called unto this day Absaloms Place. There are quite mansions of tombs in some places hereabout—the silenthalls of death, where those who had chambers have long since moulderedaway, or been cleared out by robbers. Of such excavations are the tombs ofthe Prophets, on the side of Mount Olivet, and the tombs of the Kings, half amile to the north-east of the city. The entrance to this last many-chamberedtomb was hidden by a door fitted to grooves in the rock on each side, andonly to be lifted by a lever. That was to be reached only by a

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