La terre et le livre ; ou, illustrations bibliques tirées de l'us et coutumes, les scènes et les paysages de la Terre Sainte . le. Tes villes saintes sont un désert, Sion est un désert, Jérusalem, une désolation. Notre sainte andbeautiful house, où nos pères te félicité, est burnedup avec le feu, et toutes nos choses agréables sont dévastées. Au sud de cette waihng-place sont les grandes pierres de l'archwhich M. Kobinson identifiées comme faisant partie du pont sur whichTitus se leva afin de tenir une palabre avec les juifs dans le Temple. L'une de ces pierres est de vingt-cinq pieds de long, un autre un peu plus de twen

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The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . le. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy andbeautiful house, where our fathers praised Thee, is burnedup with fire, and all our pleasant things are laid waste. South of this waihng-place are the great stones of the archwhich Dr. Kobinson identified as part of the bridge on whichTitus stood in order to hold a parley with the Jews inthe Temple. One of these stones is twenty-five feet long, another a little more than twenty, and the whole width ofthe bridge was about fifty-one feet, while its length acrossthe Tyropean to the perpendicular face of Zion could nothave been less than three hundred and fifty. Of coursethere must have been several piers and arches. The wholecauseway is supposed to have formed a magnificent passagefrom Zion to the south porch of the Temple. The identifi-cation, history, and object of this gigantic work have in ourday furnished an arena of debate and strife almost as noisy Is. Ixiv. 9-11. GREAT ARCH OF TITUS? 589. SlEING OF TUE GEEAT AECH. and earnest as when the Temple was sacked and burned bythe Eomans. It is subsiding now, and we shall do nothingto renew it. In consequence of a vast growth of cactus inthat neighborhood, and the closing of the blind paths whichformerly led to it, one can not reach the spot without muchtrouble, and few travelers now visit it. Looking down upon the city this morning, and compar-ing the area with that of other great capitals, the questionhow Jerusalem could have accommodated the vast multi-tudes that resided in or resorted to her continually occurredto my mind with unwonted emphasis. It has perplexed many before you, but the problem hasbeen embarrassed by extreme assumptions. We are not re-quired to find room for more than 200, 000 regular inhabi-tants at Jerusalem in her highest prosperity and largest ex- 690 THE LAND AND THE BOOK. pans

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