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TH1HE CITY OF THE GREAT KING ;


Jerusalem as IL Was, as IL Is, and
1t Is TO Be.
By DR.. J. T. BARCLAY, late Missionary to jerusalem
With Steel Portrait of the Author By sartaiu
Highly embel,hei with Chromographic Examinations,
Steel Engrayiugs by the best Arstists. Periscopic
Panorama Of the entire Circuit of the City and
Environs, Explanatory Diagrams and Maps,
and fine Wood Engravings
Pie Engravngs will be executed in the highest style Of
art, from Photographs AMI original designs illustrate
ing the various phases Of the City,
ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL, MODERN and BtlLLENNTAL
Also Restoration of the Temple and city as invested
By Ttus-Noticas of its Jewish. Christian, and
Hesthen Antiquites-Its Present Political
and Moral cOnditiou-Future Prospects,
&c, SC, &c.
This work is the result of investigations made during
three and half year, reside in the Holy City, with
facilities for prosecuting heretofore
oyed. 1t undertaken with special reference to the
calculation Of the Holy Scriptures the Tamud the works
Of Josephus the Crusaders, and Pilgrim Chroniclers.-
The many valuable discoveries made in the Temple En-
closure, and other sscred localities which Dr. Barclay
was admitted by special Firman, with permission to
plore those haoWed spots jealousy guarded for many
centuries, sni now for the first time presented to the
Christian public, will introduce in sacred To-
Biography The profound interest attaching to every inch
OF the Temple grounds, from the Tower OF Antonio down
to its lowest subsructurs invest his explorations Of that
sacred enclosure with greet importance. The mysteries
of the Mosque of omar, the Tomb OF David the great
Quarry Cavern beneath the hill of Bezeha, the suber
ranean Temple Lake (both discovered by the auhor)
and neither Jerusalem general, hitherto but little
KNOWN together with other of interest,
ply enclosed 1t intended merely the vehicle of
these matters, however interesting and important they
may be- but most comprehend and accurate work
on the Topography and Archaeology the interest will
hnue to increase The publishers do not hesitate in
nouncng this work as the most accurate, reliable inter-
esting on Jerusalem, Ancient Medieval and Modern,
ever published in this any other country. The splen
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Views mpart to it interest and value which other
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speculative sketches Of fancy that often libel the
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