-The "Free Son of The Desert"--Ancient Jezrael--Jehu's Achievements

-Samaria and its Famous Siege

CHAPTER LII

Curious Remnant of the Past--Shechem--The Oldest "First Family" on Earth

--The Oldest Manuscript Extant--The Genuine Tomb of Joseph--Jacob's Well

--Shiloh--Camping with the Arabs--Jacob's Ladder--More Desolation

--Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, The Fountain of Beira--Impatience

--Approaching Jerusalem--The Holy City in Sight--Noting Its Prominent

Features--Domiciled Within the Sacred Walls

CHAPTER LIII.

The Joy of the Whole Earth"--Description of Jerusalem--Church of the

Holy Sepulchre--The Stone of Unction--The Grave of Jesus--Graves of

Nicodemus and Joseph of Armattea--Places of the Apparition--The Finding

of the There Crosses----The Legend--Monkish Impostures--The Pillar of

Flagellation--The Place of a Relic--Godfrey's Sword--"The Bonds of

Christ"--"The Center of the Earth"--Place whence the Dust was taken of

which Adam was Made--Grave of Adam--The Martyred Soldier--The Copper

Plate that was on the Cross--The Good St. Helena--Place of the Division

of the Garments--St. Dimas, the Penitent Thief--The Late Emperor

Maximilian's Contribution--Grotto wherein the Crosses were Found, and the

Nails, and the Crown of Thorns--Chapel of the Mocking--Tomb of

Melchizedek--Graves of Two Renowned Crusaders--The Place of the

Crucifixion

The Innocents Abroad