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PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
outside the cultivation of the oasis, and not quite one and a half mile from the modern
Jericho, or Er Riha. The situation exactly meets the requirements of the history of Joshua,
and points to the place where the passage of the Jordan was made. It was here that the
Israelites erected twelve stones in memory of their passage, and here the rite of circumcision
AIN-ES-SULTAN, THE SULTAN'S SPRING.
Commonly called the Fountain of Elisha, or the Prophet's Fountain.
was renewed. The pool is built of walls without mortar, about forty yards in diameter, and
there are about a dozen small mounds, three or four feet high and evidently very ancient,
scattered within a space of a mile. They are called generally " the city of brass," but also
Jiljulieh, and it has been conjectured that- they may be the remains of the Israelites' fortified
PICTURESQUE PALESTINE.
outside the cultivation of the oasis, and not quite one and a half mile from the modern
Jericho, or Er Riha. The situation exactly meets the requirements of the history of Joshua,
and points to the place where the passage of the Jordan was made. It was here that the
Israelites erected twelve stones in memory of their passage, and here the rite of circumcision
AIN-ES-SULTAN, THE SULTAN'S SPRING.
Commonly called the Fountain of Elisha, or the Prophet's Fountain.
was renewed. The pool is built of walls without mortar, about forty yards in diameter, and
there are about a dozen small mounds, three or four feet high and evidently very ancient,
scattered within a space of a mile. They are called generally " the city of brass," but also
Jiljulieh, and it has been conjectured that- they may be the remains of the Israelites' fortified