The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-10
The Holy Land Of To-day.
Prom the New YORK world


From the New York world.J
A meeting in behalf of the Palestine
in the Central Methodist church, Sew
enth avenue, near Fourteenth street.
Exploration Society was held last week
Rev. Professor Hitchcock was the first
speaker. He said that explorers were
every week identifying new spots near
the Jordan. Rev. DR.. Robinson did
not make very wide exploration. Count
less ruins exist, the exploration of
which viii produce great results in the
interest of the Bible. In 1865 the Eng
lish began to examine the west side of
Jordan. They invited the cooperation
of Americans. The result was, the
English concluded to leave to the Amer
lean society the east side Of Jordan
while they took the west side. The
English have surveyed 1,250 square
miles. The Americans viii use the
same scales, so that uniform map may
be made. TIL English are spending
S25, 900 a year, the American society
viii keep within $4,000. The whole
work viii require five years. A frank
appeal viii be made to the Christians
of this countrg to furnish the money
for this enterprise. a number of Amer
leans are now on the ground, and have
surveyed their base-line of five miles,
The expenses have been met, so far, by
gentlemen of New York, who have sub
scribed $500 to 81, 900 apiece. The de
sire is now to obtain $40 subscriptions.
If the Bedouins are too troublesome the
enterprise will be given up. 1t is de-
sired that this Bible-loving earnest
Methodist church shall have the first
chance to subscribe. The speaker said
he would now introduce an explorer,
who is the son of a missionary, and was
born in Palestine.
Rev. ". H. Thompson said that the
longer he stayed in Palestine the more
he realized how little is known about
the country. There is no site except
Jerusalem that seems so easy to explore
as Tyre. He had been there some forty
times. Beyrout is now using old Tyre
as a stone-quarry. Ceserea was evi
IDENTIFY built from the stones of an Ole
Phenician town. Most modern citiel
in that region are built in this way. Al
Arab once took him to see a tesselateC
pavement in Tyre. Near it was hol,
that led to causeway just discovered
This was evidently the causewaY tina
was made of the ruins of most ancien
Tyre, taken by Alexander by it h
connected the island on which the cit,
stood with the mainland. It was mad
of mass of old Phenician columns
All the waters near Tyre are strew1
with the ruins of some of the fines
buildings ever erected. Columns of al
sorts are found, and the oldest are tn
most massive. He thought the explo
ration of such waters was a far more i'm
portant work than the search for a
open polar sea. Some peasants of S!
don lately struck upon four leaden boz
es full of gold pieces. They quarreled
and the news coming to the governor. h
tortured them until they disgorged tn
(: whole sum. Such treasures have ofte
! been found there, as such burials hav
5 been going on for five thousand year:
) He had been much struck by eastl
3 near Tyre. Found it Saracenic, with
D Canaanite base. From the castle
S and his father counted seventy-tw
, ruins of towns and castles. In trave
= ing through Galilee he found that J,
sephus was right in saying there We
+, /, 800 towns there. These ruins stan
$ so close that they almost touch. TIL
s land has been conquered, as far as Il
t west of Jordan is concerned, by q
d great nations. But Jordan valley ], 81
d feet below the sea, has acted as a ba
j rier, and the east side is remarkab
unchanged from the times of Job. A
- architecture is found there that seen
e likely to last as long as the earth. E
= cry particle of the houses, even to Il
y ceilings, is of stone. There is a so
e of lava bed there which it cost Meh
e met Ali 10000 men to capture fro
IS 1000 Druses. In this very place W
Re the stronghold of cog, king of E
shan" That land has treasures of il
a mense value, because it has been so /
d tie disturbed, There are iuscriptio
N there which will certainly explain t
Sc original dispersion of the race from t
N plateaus of Asia, and also why t
L Egyptians had hieroglyphic while t
u Asiatics had a phonetic language.
b. the close of this speech the names
is those who would pay so year for f
n years were taken.