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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10357#0025
JERUSALEM.
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to be capable of offering a determined resistance to the most celebrated armies of the ancient
world.
Immediately beyond the Kedron Valley, "before" or to the east of Jerusalem, is the
Mount of Olives (see page 8), a long ridge of graceful outline, swelling out ever and again
ENTRANCE TO THE CITADEL.
Showing the rudely constructed wooden bridge across the moat and Turkish sentries on guard,
into rounded knolls which command striking views of the city and the surrounding country.
On one of these knolls, opposite Mount Moriah, and two hundred and twenty feet above the
Temple Platform, are the Mosque and Church of the Ascension ; on another, towards the
north, a small ruin marks the spot where, according to tradition, the men of Galilee stood
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to be capable of offering a determined resistance to the most celebrated armies of the ancient
world.
Immediately beyond the Kedron Valley, "before" or to the east of Jerusalem, is the
Mount of Olives (see page 8), a long ridge of graceful outline, swelling out ever and again
ENTRANCE TO THE CITADEL.
Showing the rudely constructed wooden bridge across the moat and Turkish sentries on guard,
into rounded knolls which command striking views of the city and the surrounding country.
On one of these knolls, opposite Mount Moriah, and two hundred and twenty feet above the
Temple Platform, are the Mosque and Church of the Ascension ; on another, towards the
north, a small ruin marks the spot where, according to tradition, the men of Galilee stood