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Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872
Subjects: Crusades
Publisher: London J.W. Parker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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is therefore, we may say, Mexico on a very reduced scale. In like manner, the
Dead Sea is a miniature of the Mediterranean, the Caspian, and such seas as re-
ceive the waters of all the surrounding countries, and have no outlet, evapora-
tion sufficing to carry off all that they pour into it. Its most exact parallel is
Lake Urmiah, to the south of Tebreez in Persia, which, like it, drains the
surrounding country, has no outlet, and whose waters have the same density and
the same degree of bitterness. The surface of the Dead Sea is between 1300 and
1400.feet below the level of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, being the lowest
water-level on the face of the globe. The level of Lake Tiberias is in like man-
ner 650 feet below the level of the Mediterranean ; so that the fall of the Jordan
in the space between the two lakes is upwards of 700 feet. This space in a direct
line is not more than 60 miles, but the windings of the stream are such as to give
it a course of nearly 200 miles,

1009.] PLAN OF JERUSALEM. 135
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References

A Bezetha.
B Moriah.
C Acra.
D Zion.
a The Temple.
b Holy Sepulchre.
c Tower of David.
d Gate of David, or of Joppa.
e Gate of St. Stephen.
f Gate of Mount Olivet.
g Church of the Mother of God.
h Pool of Bethsaida.
1 Camp of Bobert of Normandy.
2 ——— Bobert of Flanders.
3 ———Tancred.
4 ———Godfrey of Bouillon.
5 ——— Raymond of Toulouse.
6 Last attack of Godfrey.

1099.] DESCRIPTION OF JERUSALEM. 137

is on the north of Mount Moriah. The whole of this
space is surrounded by a wall and towers, within, which
however only a small portion of Mount Zion is included.
It has four principal gates—namely, that of Jaffa on the
west, by the Tower of David, the northern termination of
Mount Zion; that of Damascus on the north; that of
St. Stephen on the east, just above Mount Moriah; that of
Zion on the south. The valley on the west is named that
of Gihn; that on the south, of the Son of Hinnom ; that
on the east, and which goes round the island on the north,
of Jehoshaphat. The lowest point of the city is Mount

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