...desolation which pervades it is described by Chateaubriand as extreme. " The houses are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows. They have flat...terraces or domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchre* The whole would appear to the eye one uninterrupted level, did not the steeples of the churches,...

...(towards) the brook Kidron, you perceive vacant spaces. The houses of Jerusalem are heavy, square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows. They have flat...steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, and the summits of a few cypresses, break the uniformity of the plan. On beholding these stone buildings,...

...Jerusalem are heavy, square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows; they have flat ten aces or domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchres....beholding these stone buildings, encompassed by a stone country, you are ready to inquire if they are not the confused monuments of a cemetery in the...

...loose stones. Canvass stretched from house to house, The houses of Jerusalem are heavy, square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows. They have flat...steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, and the summits of a few.cypresses, break the uniformity of the plan. On beholding these stone buildings,...

...Castle of Antonia, and the second palace of Herod. The houses of Jerusalem are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows : they have...the clumps of nopals, break the uniformity of the plain. On beholding these stone buildings, encompassed by a stony country, you are ready to inquire,...

...the surrounding view." Another traveller remarks, " The houses of Jerusalem are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows ; they have...domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchres. On beholding these stone buildings, encompassed by a stony country, you are ready to inquire if they...

...Chateaubriand thus describes the interior of the city : — " The houses of Jerusalem are heavy, square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows : they have flat terraces or domes on the :op, and look like prisons or sepulchres. The whole would appear to the eye one uninterrupted level,...

...desolation which pervades it is described by Chateaubriand as extreme. " The houses are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows. They have flat...steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, and the clumps of nopals, break the uniformity of the plan. Enter the city, you will there find nothing...

...desolation which pervades it is described by Chateaubriand as extreme. " The houses are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows. They have flat...steeples of the churches, the minarets of the mosques, and the clumps of nopals, break the uniformity of the plan. Enter the city, you will there find nothing...

...desolation. ' ' An eminent French traveller says, "The houses of Jerusalem are heavy square masses, very low, without chimneys or windows; they have flat...domes on the top, and look like prisons or sepulchres. Enter the city, hut nothing will you find there to make amends for the dulness of its exterior. You...