Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-05-14

of which, from its foundation up TO the
period of it's capture by the Romans, WAS
known and recorded with unparalleled
minuteness, suddenly wiped out from the
face of the earth, with nothing left to
mark Us site but gigantic heaps of ruins,
on which, after the lapse of centuries, a
small and ugly looking town was built.
From the destruction of Jerusalem by
Titus down to the fourth century, the his
tory Of the city Is blank but, from the
latter period until now, descriptions Of II
have been numerous and detailed. Curl.
ously enough, however, no one before
Lieutenant Warren seems TO have no.
ticed that, while the correctness of the de-
scription given by Josephus of the ancient
city is unqucstionable, the fact that the ap.
pearancc and comparative height of the
hills, and especially the height Of the tenn
pie wall are so diilerout--the discrepancy
pointed out the fact that the surface of the
modern city Is one hundred feet or more
| above what was the surface of the ancient
| city. Thus, Josophus speaks of the dizzy
| height trom the southern c)oisler of the
temple to the bottom of the Kendron Val
| ley. AT present the height is anything
but dizzy one but Lieutenant Warren
has ascertained that the wall of the tenn.
| Pile, from its foundation IN the floor of this
cloister, was 1873 feet the cloister was
itself 90 feet high and the bottom of the
valley of the Kendron, which is now only
| 193 feet below the wall, was in fact 225
feet deep; so that the dizzy height was
really 44S feet, or Just about the distance
OF the 800 cubits mentioned by Josephus.
Lieutenant Warren commenced his ex-
cavations at tho southeast corner of the
harem inclosure, a spot where the wall Is
| II rah fNrf hn oil ~ ihn tom md
its height, which IL seventy feet above the
present surface The result of this exam
ination was the discovery of the true sur.
face of the rock on which this portion OF
the temple wall stands, at distance OF
sixty feet below the present surface, and
1873 feet below the inner level OF the plat
form of the harem. The next excava'i iOu
was at the opposite end of the south wall
and here, after exposing the wall to the
depth of forty.fve feet, pavement was
found, consisting Of stones one foo
square, polished by the tread of fee
nearly 1000 years ago, The workman
ship of the wall was beautiful, the lower
course being rusticated," but the upper
ones finished on the face, with joints
oxquisitev fitted so Rs to be hardly
visible. The "rehntng" Is from four &c
; six inches wide, and set in black abOu
three inches in the upper or dressed stones
and eighteen inches in those not dressed
This shaft was continued still deeper, an,
at the depth cf Cighty-live feet CALLER,
was found running north and SOUTH whicl
= was explored to u distance of $50 fee'
J BY another excavation 6 series of vault
/ was found under those which have bee
known as the stables of Solomon" Th
, masonry of the passage leading to thes
3 vaults ais Of tho first order of megalihi
} masonry, with stones upwards of fiftec
3 feet in length, beautifully worked, an
{ with the characteristic rebating" TIL
roof is of large stones, rebatcd and lai
: fiat. The discoveries made by other e'
b cavations are equally important and dt
cisivo, and they show, beyond all cavil, th'
, the old Jerusalem still exists beneath th
: modern town.-Ne3o York World.