DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.10357#0116
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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
corner of the city. The temple and the more northern portions are hid by the slope of Olivet
on the right; what is seen is only Mount Zion, now for the most part a rough field, crowned
TRADITIONAL SITE OF BETHPHAGE, THE HOUSE OF FIGS.
On the ridge which leads from the Mount of Olives to the hill above Bethany. Fig-trees grow by the wayside, and branches of the fig-tree
border the picture.
with the Mosque of David and the angle of the western walls, but then covered with houses
to its base, surmounted by the Castle of Herod, on the supposed site of the Palace of David,
from which that portion of Jerusalem, emphatically the ' City of David,' derived its name. It
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
corner of the city. The temple and the more northern portions are hid by the slope of Olivet
on the right; what is seen is only Mount Zion, now for the most part a rough field, crowned
TRADITIONAL SITE OF BETHPHAGE, THE HOUSE OF FIGS.
On the ridge which leads from the Mount of Olives to the hill above Bethany. Fig-trees grow by the wayside, and branches of the fig-tree
border the picture.
with the Mosque of David and the angle of the western walls, but then covered with houses
to its base, surmounted by the Castle of Herod, on the supposed site of the Palace of David,
from which that portion of Jerusalem, emphatically the ' City of David,' derived its name. It