Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-11-07

tains, are sprlnkled with skirts and tufts
OF herbs, on which the camel and flocks
of sheep and goats browse; but no horses
or neat cattle are found throughout the
whole region. 1t is true, the present is
rear of dearth, scarcely any rain having
now fallen for two seasons. When there
is rain in plenty, then, comparatively, the
desert may be said to bud and blossom,
and grass springs up over a great portion
of its surface. In such season the Arabs
say they are kings"
Ancient Rains.
"On this route We found the ruins OF
the ancient Roman .s3aces Eboda and Ell
usa; and also those of Beersheba, %
miles 5. w. Of Hebron, still called Birse-
ba. There are two wells of fine water,
over 40 feet deep, one l21 feet diameter
and the other about 6, walled up with SOL
id mason work, the bottoms dug out of the
solid rock. Close by are ruins as of
large Struggling village. corresponding
entirely TO the description of it by Fuse
bus and Jerome"
Antiquities of Jerusalem.
In Jerusalem we are surprised to find
how much of antiquity remains, which no
traveller has ever mentioned, or apparent
ly ever seen. The walls around the
great area Of the mosque of Omar are
without all question, those built by Her
cd around the area of his temple; the size,
position and character of the stones, (one
of them BOZ feet long, and many over 20
teet,) show this ofthemselves but it is far
Their demonstrated by the fact, that near
the S. w. corner there still remains, az a
part of the wall, the foot of an immense
arch evidently belonging to the bridge
which anciently led from the temple to the
Xystus on Mount Sion; [Josephus J. 6.
3. q This no one appears ever to have
seen. In the castle near the Yafxa gate
is also an ancient tower of stones like
those of the temple, corresponding precise
ly to Josephus's description of the tower
Hippicus.-B. J. 5. A. 3.-which Titus
LEFT standing as memento. the ancient
part is over 40 feet high, and built solid
without any room within. We have no
doubt that it is Hippicus
We have thus gained some important
fixed points from which to start in apply.
| ing the ancient descriptions of the CITY,
We have been able also to trace to con-
siderable distance the ancient wall N. w.
and N. of the present city. The pool oil
Sloan, at the mouth of the Tyropecum,
(see Catherwood's plan.) is without doubt
the Sloan of Josephus, and the wall OF
Nehemiah, farther down. is the En- -Rogel
OF Scripture, where the border of Judah
and Benjamin passed up the valley OF
Hinnom. We have found farther tha,
there is living fountain of water deep
under the mosque of Omar, which is
doubtless ancient; the water has lust the
taste of that of Sloan, and we Conjecture
a connection between them This point
we have yet to examine. We have moi
completed the half of what we wish to in
: vestigate in this city, and could spend an
: other month or two with profit in the like
researches here.''
Farther Researches Proposed.
"Our plan is to make excursions from
this city to the neighboring sites of ancient
places-to Jericho and the Jordan, and
also longer one to GAIA, thence to He
bron, and thence to Wady Mousa, so as
to explore the north end of the Ghor, and
r the region of the Dead Sea. l hope to
find some trace of Kadesh and other cit
les in that region. From all the informa
ton we can get, it would seem that in the
, rainy seasons, when water runs in the
! Ghor, 1t flows nortward toward the Dead
, Sea, thus contradicting the hypothesis
! that the Jordan once flowed through il &c
= the Elanitic Gulf Afierward we hone tc
r go north, examine the sources of the Jor
2 dan, and other points as far as Damascus
r and then pass from Beirout to SMYRNA
, All this. if the Lord will, and as he will. ;,
e The TEETH.-An article is going tn,
e rounds OF the papers, in reference to the
D extraction ofteeth by new process, which
| consists in cutting ligament at the neck
= OF the tooth, and then pulling it out with
4 the fingers. The article describing this
new method appeared in Waldie's Phila
delphia Magazine, and subsequently, in
several of the papers in this CITY. It i.
surprtslngthat SO gross hoax should have
! found its way into the newspa pers.
: 1t appears that person by the name 0
, Caldwell, dentist in Philadelphia, made
= this wonderful discovery. This Mr.. Cald
we'll had a horse that was unable to ca
|, oats on account of decayed tooth, and
:. ne accordingly attempted its removal witt
= mallet and chisel, but without success
E 1.-The tooth was intractable." saws tn,
writer, no effort could Withdraw il from
Its socket. The gum tumefed,-and or
:. examining it carefully, the doctor perceiy
ed llgament at the ne:k of the tooth. anf
!. without much thinking of the effect. he
cut l.: the tooth Immediately fell ont o,
was extracted with a SLIGHT effort of tbe