[329] Mejir-ed-din, Mines d'Orient, Vol. II. p. 95.

[330] Plate XXIV.

[331] De Edific. Justin., Lib. IV. c. 6.

[332] Note x.x.xIV.

[333] Eutychius, Annales, II. 246. Dielal-ed-din. Kemal-ed-din.

Mejir-ed-din.

[334] The Holy City, Vol. I. p. 318. Second edition.

[335] Note x.x.xV.

[336] Plates XXIII., XXIV.

[337] See M. de Vogue's work, Les eglises de la Terre Sainte.

[338] Plate XI. (Plan).

[339] A variety of marble, generally of a dark brown colour, full of fossil sh.e.l.ls, exhibiting beautiful iridescent colours, due to the nacreous matter of the sh.e.l.ls; sometimes deep red or orange, when it is called fire-marble.

[340] Plate XXIV.

[341] Plate XXV.

[342] See details, Plate XXIX.

[343] Ant. XV. 11, -- 5.

[344] De aedificiis Justiniani, Lib. V. cap. vi. (Translated in Rev. G.

Williams' Holy City, Vol. II. p. 369).

[345] Les eglises de la Terre Sainte, par le Comte Melchior de Vogue, p.

272. He also quotes the Rev. G. Williams in confirmation of his opinion.

[346] Jewish War, V. 3, -- 1.

[347] Jewish War, VII. 2, -- 1.

[348] Plate XI.

[349] Plate XXVI.

[350] Note x.x.xVI.

[351] Note x.x.xVII.

[352] Plate XXVII.

[353] Les eglises de la Terre Sainte.

[354] Plate XXIX.

[355] Note x.x.xVIII.

[356] Note x.x.xIX.

[357] Note XL.

[358] Note IV.

[359] Notes x.x.xIX., XL.

[360] Note XLI.

[361] Pages 48, 49, 53, 54.

[362] Levit. i. 11; Ezek. xl. 35-38.

[363] See the enclosed s.p.a.ce, covered with cross lines, about the Mosque of Omar, Plate XI.

[364] Mischna, 2nd part, Treatise _Yoma_, c. 3, -- 1.

[365] Ezek. xl. 39-41.

[366] Levit. i. 16.

[367] Jewish War, V. 11, ---- 4, 5.

[368] See the Conduits, Plate X.

[369] See the sections, Plate XII.

[370] Plate XI.

[371] Note XLII.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, AND THE HOSPITAL OF S. JOHN, WITH THEIR ENVIRONS--HISTORY OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE FROM THE DEATH OF CHRIST TO THE PRESENT TIME--GENUINENESS OF THE SEPULCHRE--GOLGOTHA--EXAMINATION OF THE EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH--RUINS OF THE HOSPITAL.

After the publication of the works of the Rev. G. Williams, Professor Willis, and M. de Vogue, on the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the fruits of so much learning and research, it is perhaps rash to undertake to write upon this subject; still, as I only enter upon its history so far as it concerns things now to be seen and the explanation of my own investigations, I venture to apply myself to the task; requesting the reader, who is desirous of fuller information, to study the works of these authors[372]. If I may happen to differ from them on any point, I do not intend to discuss their theories, as that would occupy too much time, but simply to state my own opinions, which have been formed after a most careful examination of the place by different means, during a period of eight years.