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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
How long these pilgrimages have existed the ruins of the monasteries which stud the
lower part of the Jordan valley bear witness. One of these, the Convent of St. John, from
which the view on page
163 is taken, is close to
the Latin bathing-place,
and some little way above
that held to by the Greeks, and where the
scenes just described take place. The Moslems
call this convent Kasr-el-Yehud—"the Jews'
tower." It was undoubtedly to the sacredness
of the bathing-places that these monasteries
owed their existence in the first instance.
Gradually, as the pilgrimage became, under
Moslem rule, a somewhat perilous journey,
they were maintained as a sort of religious
garrison for the reception and protection of
pilgrims; but when the customary bathing became confined to Eastertide exclusively, and
ER RIHA, THE MODERN JERICHO.
On the Site of the "New Jericho" of the Crusaders.
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
How long these pilgrimages have existed the ruins of the monasteries which stud the
lower part of the Jordan valley bear witness. One of these, the Convent of St. John, from
which the view on page
163 is taken, is close to
the Latin bathing-place,
and some little way above
that held to by the Greeks, and where the
scenes just described take place. The Moslems
call this convent Kasr-el-Yehud—"the Jews'
tower." It was undoubtedly to the sacredness
of the bathing-places that these monasteries
owed their existence in the first instance.
Gradually, as the pilgrimage became, under
Moslem rule, a somewhat perilous journey,
they were maintained as a sort of religious
garrison for the reception and protection of
pilgrims; but when the customary bathing became confined to Eastertide exclusively, and
ER RIHA, THE MODERN JERICHO.
On the Site of the "New Jericho" of the Crusaders.