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264 TRAVELS IK EGYPT, NUBIA,
rity, even to death, by throwing the offenders into the sea.
The slightest liberty of look or speech was punished with
bastinado. The soldiers keep a watch by night, patrolling
the town and walls, and proclaiming at intervals that all is
right; but, as in all Turkish towns, there were no sentries.
JERUSALEM.
This town is surrounded by walls of stone, Avith battle-
ments consisting of square towers at intervals, without can-
non. It is commanded in all directions: the walls seem in-
tended only to repel the incursions of Arabs, and appear to
have been built as far back as in the time of the Crusades.
In the foundations are stones of immense size, and some of
the saliant angles are strengthened by layers of a size much
larger than the rest, and corresponding with those of the
foundation. An escalade would be difficult on the north,
south, and east, from the ravines which lie beneath them.
The castle, also apparently of the earliest times after the
Crusades, is situated on the south-west end of the town, on
Mount Sion. It is composed of towers connected by cur-
tains, which form two or three enclosures, the interior suc-
cessively commanding the exterior: a few old guns mounted
on carriages, equally old and unserviceable, were on the walls.
rity, even to death, by throwing the offenders into the sea.
The slightest liberty of look or speech was punished with
bastinado. The soldiers keep a watch by night, patrolling
the town and walls, and proclaiming at intervals that all is
right; but, as in all Turkish towns, there were no sentries.
JERUSALEM.
This town is surrounded by walls of stone, Avith battle-
ments consisting of square towers at intervals, without can-
non. It is commanded in all directions: the walls seem in-
tended only to repel the incursions of Arabs, and appear to
have been built as far back as in the time of the Crusades.
In the foundations are stones of immense size, and some of
the saliant angles are strengthened by layers of a size much
larger than the rest, and corresponding with those of the
foundation. An escalade would be difficult on the north,
south, and east, from the ravines which lie beneath them.
The castle, also apparently of the earliest times after the
Crusades, is situated on the south-west end of the town, on
Mount Sion. It is composed of towers connected by cur-
tains, which form two or three enclosures, the interior suc-
cessively commanding the exterior: a few old guns mounted
on carriages, equally old and unserviceable, were on the walls.