Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-22

r. These Lectures are listened % With much ana y.
incfsasisg interest,"; and ne should Be glad, 70
Gee slhesn asssndsd ~ bsass.t saefuii capacity
Of j. Baptist Church, where thsy srs g.ven bes
fore the Yeung Mems Literary Association. The y
follssing i The ground passed over last night
/ he spoke Of die Journey from, Nablous 70 les
I arus.lem--of tie Well Of Jacob, which he de-
scribes on The roadside from Jerusalem to Naz-
sse.h, inths Valley Of Norah. u The Well still
| consains wasss, bot not In use nsw. Near 70
tf;sa the Tomb Of Joseph. es''@3 ~ o,'x sss'st
II Hs described the Ruins Of Shiloh where Sam
uei Judged Israel-And described the night
speat; .. ancient Bethel The houses Of the Arabs
and Weir domestic lie. avis j. ,asb4ls slifty
Hs, gavs the impssssioss Of schristisn trsyel-
ier q the iirys giimpses Of the Holy oisy-he
sposs Of tho solitude In which Il sts-of the ~.
inous appearance Of the hills and valleys. 5g He
described the streets 5as very marrow, gloomy,
and 1Siens ae0 bnsi3a % -siis1as'aJ oat ais% b
TIA present population of Jerusalem is esti.
mated at twenty'thres thousand, Of whom ten
thousand are Jews fvs thousand Aohammedans
and the remainder Greeks, Italians, Armenians,
Germans, English and French, &c .sI. ~ ts .ii
Between these races, Jerusalem is divided into
three quarters, viz THE Turkish, Jewish, and
Frsnk-and the lecturer gave some description
ofeach district, and the appearance Of the peoc,i
plc Who dozs away lie in the gloomy streets and
lnoulderins houses. siii % lzggsog . 10 az Vi
a. He spoke Of the Lcpcrs Of Jerusalem their
appearance, village. ei, sgsg5s sn-s bas.s issi
He described the Church Of the Holy sepul-,
chre, built over the supposed site of the three
greatest events in the history Of the worid-thee
Crucid xion, Burial, and Resurrection Of Jesus
Christ. 7asi51T sas tas .sav.s4nadf ssJt o b
q Hs described the Garden Of 'Gethsemane in
The Valley, Of Jehosaphat, in which stands eight
very aged olive trees, one Of them twenty four
feet in circumference. o. He then spoke Of the
Mount Of Oliycs-its fertility, and Chapel of As
cension, Of the magnificent view from Its sum
NIT. 80 ga4 ol j9aiaA tsa.sT &aaaiAal sl5 -.a
The Lecturer spoke OF the tombs and'ruin in
the Valley Of Jehosaph the Pool Of siloanr,-7e q
the Well Of Joab-thes Field Of Blood AID the
Valley Of Hinnon.s ssesss,s ezi1 s}iv L,ia ,shgao
He next entered upon description of'the'
country between Jerusalem and BethlehenflI--;, m >,
spoke Of Rxchels sGrave-7the scenes around
Bethlehem--t celebration in the great church.
Of the nativity Of our Lord-the Well Of David
At the gate, aud the Field Of Shepherds, isi7s
E He spoke of the Wilderness ofJudea Is ayas.
solitude, ascehe ofngged and gloomy gran,
deur. -, - Sc -, sg,g-
He spoke Of the approaches to the Dead d Sea Sea
of the white and naked rocks--ot the Mount
of Temptation-of the Lion Of the Vaiiey--of #,
the appearance Of the ;water---its weight one
-6fth heavier than any water oa,the. globe-of'
the effort TO swim in the Scat q 49fF af
a. He spoke Of the Valley Of the Jordan-and
described the Sacred River as not larger than than
the aDes Moues. in most places not more than
ono hundreds yards wideadi raal, & '7I a. 8''i''
: He concluded his Lecture with giving an ac-
count Of ancient and modern Jericho and deS-
scribed the shrub Balm Of Gilead-the Well of
Elisha-and the robber road from Jericho 70 Je-
rusalenl.