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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
water lies. This conduit was probably connected with that discovered near Robinson's Arch,
which was cut when the present south-west angle of the Haram esh Sherif was built, and it
possibly formed part of the great system of water supply devised by King Hezekiah. The
supply of water is due partly to infiltration, and partly, perhaps, to the flow of water from a
SARACENIC FOUNTAIN ON THE AQUEDUCT FROM SOLOMON'S POOLS.
The causeway, to which the aqueduct forms a parapet on the north side, crosses the Valley of Hinnom just above the Birket es Sultan.
concealed spring higher up the valley. In either case it passes through the foul mass of
rubbish on which the city now stands, and acquires a nauseous taste.
There are four classes of cisterns in Jerusalem. First, those which have been formed by
sinking deep shafts through the rock, and then making a bottle or retort-shaped excavation at
the bottom to act as a collector. These cisterns appear to be of very great age. They derive
their supply in part from surface drainage and in part from the water which finds its way in
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
water lies. This conduit was probably connected with that discovered near Robinson's Arch,
which was cut when the present south-west angle of the Haram esh Sherif was built, and it
possibly formed part of the great system of water supply devised by King Hezekiah. The
supply of water is due partly to infiltration, and partly, perhaps, to the flow of water from a
SARACENIC FOUNTAIN ON THE AQUEDUCT FROM SOLOMON'S POOLS.
The causeway, to which the aqueduct forms a parapet on the north side, crosses the Valley of Hinnom just above the Birket es Sultan.
concealed spring higher up the valley. In either case it passes through the foul mass of
rubbish on which the city now stands, and acquires a nauseous taste.
There are four classes of cisterns in Jerusalem. First, those which have been formed by
sinking deep shafts through the rock, and then making a bottle or retort-shaped excavation at
the bottom to act as a collector. These cisterns appear to be of very great age. They derive
their supply in part from surface drainage and in part from the water which finds its way in