my knuckles, now several months after, retain a faint recollection.

Thus convinced of the error of our ways, we retraced our steps, and eventually got upon the Hebron road for Jerusalem. There being no longer any likelihood of again deviating, we had leisure and opportunity to ride side by side, and converse upon the scenes we had witnessed, or which met us at various turns in the road, or from the rising grounds which we traversed. From one point we obtained a view of the Dead Sea; at another we passed near the Greek convent of Marelius.

Presently we reached the point in the road, at . which Jerusalem comes into view from a greater distance than any from which we had yet beheld it. "Here," said my companion, "is the spot where, it is believed, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off." (Gen. xxii. 4.) It will be remembered that Mount Moriah, on which the temple was afterwards built, is accredited to be the Mount on which "he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son." (Heb. xi. 17.) Here then, we may believe, it was that the patriarch left the servants behind with the ass, saying to them, “I and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you." What must have been

the thoughts of his heart as he traversed that long stretch of road, with the place continually coming afresh into nearer view, where he was to lay the wood in order and bind thereon his son, his only son, Isaac! And what, too, when his beloved Isaac broke the silence of that hour, with the question, "Where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?" The faith of Abraham confided in Him, whose word he was obeying, and whose provision was soon discovered to him in the ram, caught in a thicket by his horns, when, Isaac being given back to him from the dead, and the substitute offered up, Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jireh. xxii. 14.)

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As we drew near the city, the hill of Evil Counsel came fully into view. The name of this hill rests on the tradition that it was here, in the country house of Caiaphas, the traitor Judas made his bargain for betraying the Lord, as He had foretold, saying unto His disciples, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me" (John xiii. 21), and when they asked Him, "Lord, who is it?" Jesus answered, "He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon." (Ver. 26.) After which was

fulfilled that which is written, "Mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. (Ps. xli. 9.)

CHAPTER VI.

JERUSALEM, MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND BETHANY.

We now descend into the Valley of Gehenna, where formerly was Tophet and the idol Moloch, passing the lower pool of Gihon, of which (or the water system connected with it) we find mention in the history of the acts of Hezekiah in 2 Chronicles xxxii. 30.

We rode into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and watered our horses at the brook Kedron, near to the village of Siloam, at a place where some of the villagers had brought cattle to drink. A little beyond, we turned to the left under the city wall, to visit the pool of Siloam, the water in which is tolerably fresh, being renewed from a spring which discharges into it, called the "Fountain of the Virgin."

Captain Warren's excavations have brought to light an apparent connection between this pool and certain channels which led thither, from the base of the altar in the temple, but as the excavations were suspended at the season of my visit, and as I had no other source upon which I could draw for in