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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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increases with exposure to the air.I have had occasion to excavate much of this mizzeystone upon my own grounds on Mount Gareb, and havegood reason to know how exceedingly hard, difficultof cleavage, and durable it is. Hence it was perfectlynatural that Mount Zion should have been pre-eminentlyregarded from the earliest times as the Table-landRock, the natural, immovable, stone fortress of Judahs everlasting hills. And this leads me to the intensely interestingmodern recovery of the ancient stronghold of Zion,which was regarded in the days of David as theGibraltar of Palestine fortifications. The very blind 1 Jer. xxi. 13. The Hebrew is tsoor hammeeshoan^ literally Rockof the table-land, or level down—that is, the Table-land Rock. i24 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS and the lame, so said the Jebusites, could here turnDavid and his forces away.1 Josephus gives a magnificentaccount of the defences of the city, natural and artificial,in his day, and especially at or about this point. The first
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JERUSALEM AFTER A SNOWSTORM, A RARE SIGHT, ONLY SEENABOUT ONCE IN SEVEN YEARS of its three walls ran round the summit of Mount Zion.It had sixty towers. The largeness of the stones,he says. in three of these was wonderful. They were 2-Sam. v. 6-8. JERUSALEM white marble (mizzey), 27 feet long by 10 feet broad,and 5 feet deep.1 In 1874 Mr. Henry Maudslay, following the formerwork of Sir Charles Warren, fully explored and laidbare the rock foundation of this wall on the south-westbrow of Mount Zicn, in all probability the famousJebusite fortress, the stronghold of Zion.2 It provedindeed a magnificent natural fastness, rendered byhuman art practically impregnable. The limestonecrag at this point appeared as a perpendicular scarp,that is, cut smooth and straight as a wall, to an averageheight of 30 feet, as far as the Turkish authorities wouldallow him to lay it bare, a distance of some 130 yards.A base of a huge tower was exposed to view, inthe shape of a projecting buttress 45 feet squa

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