Dairy of a Journey to the East, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Dairy of a Journey to the East, Vol. 2: In the Autumn of 1854Our search, the hill of Neby Samuel, known by the lofty minaret standing upon its summit, and then passing over the celebrated hill of Scopus, we shortly afterwards arrived at our destination. Upon its summit there once stood a Christian church, built by the crusaders. To find this church a min did not surprise me, but had I not seen everything in this country hastening to decay, in which, as I think, I can perceive the beginning of the end, it would certainly have surprised me to find, as I did, the Mahometan mosque in ruins like the church. A portion of the mosque, roo¿ess and ready to fall, has been converted into an olive-press, and I saw lying in it the stones with which they carry on the rude operation of crushing out the oil. But other useful works are as ruinous at Neby Samuel as the mosque. There was a large reservoir excavated in the rock, the lime and lining of which had fallen in, and which, had now been converted into a threshing ¿oor, for which it was not ill adapted. From holding water it now held grain, but a thrashing ¿oor is more easily made than a reservoir. To my surprise the people made no objection to our entering the mosque, and we ascended to the top of the minaret, and then gained an extensive view, which well repaid us for our labour. Near to us the country had that ruddy hue derived, in a B 2.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.