THE HOLY PLACES:

A NARRATIVE OF

TWO YEARS' RESIDENCE IN JERUSALEM AND PALESTINE.

BY

HANMER L. DUPUIS.

WITH

NOTES ON THE DISPERSED CANAANITE TRIBES.

BY

JOSEPH DUPUIS,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.

LATE BRITISH VICE CONSUL IN TRIPOLI AND TUNIS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,

SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1856.

203. c. 66.

THE HOLY PLACES.

CHAPTER. J.

The Tombs of the Kings-The Question of their Identity Considered-The Sepulchres upon the brow of the Mount of Olives-The Tombs of the Judges-Numerous Excavations beneath and around the Holy City-Geographical position of Palestine-A Relic of the Crusades.

THE Kubour el Moulouk, tombs of the kings, are on the north-west side of Jerusalem, distant one mile. They are situated on a broad level plot of ground, the one supposed to have been enclosed within the city walls, but which is now the open country, and thickly covered with olive trees. This plain is unique, inasmuch as, besides being comparatively level, it is devoid

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