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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. l6l

appearance not being interesting to the Armenians, who new
modelled the church, as will hereafter be explained.

The attempt to bring every thing connected with the
crucifixion of our Saviour under the same roof surprised me.
In one part of the church is an elevated piece of rock,
enclosed in a sort of chapel, in which the crucifixion took
place; three small square pieces of marble, in the centre of
each of which is a hole, mark the spot where the crosses of
our Saviour and the malefactors were fixed; and in another,
close to this, is a chapel, dedicated to the place where the
ceremony of nailing to the cross was performed : underneath
is an excavation, where St. Helena found the cross; and a
little farther off is the tomb of Nicodemus the Jew, who
is mentioned in St. John, chap. iii.; but by what authority
he is buried here I do not know.

To complete the show, a fragment of a granite column,
about two feet high, said to be taken from the palace of
Pontius Pilate, and described as the pillar to which our
Saviour was attached when he was scourged, is placed in
another chapel. But I will not tire the reader by dwelling
longer on the relics of this church, which are made the objects
of contention between the different sects, and are by turns
possessed, as each has money to purchase the right to them
from the Turkish chiefs, who of Course are anxious that such
contests should occur.

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