The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-22
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FRIDAY. OCT. %. 1886.
the WALL OF JERUSALEM.
A SECTION OF THE SECOND STRUCTURE
uNEARTHED.

secrets. In some places sixty,
seventy, and even as much as 100
feet of rubbish have been accumu-
lated over what was at former
period the surface of the ground.
The first great beginning of this
heaping up of the fragments of de-
struction may be dated at the time
when Nebuchadnezzar took Jeru-
salem and carried off the inhabit-
ants to "the rivers of Babylon" At
that time Nebuza Adam, who COM
manded the Chaldeans, "burned the
House of the House of the Lord"
and it is also stated that ''the Chal-
deans burned the Kings House and
the houses of the people with fire,
and brake down the walls of Jeru-
salem" This must have been
very complete demolition, and the
result necessarily produced a very
large archaeological deposit. The
unfortunate city has undergone
many similar operations since that
time, and on each occasion a new
stratum of remains has been laid
down. Let any one, however little
he may have read on the subject,
throw his thoughts back on such a
history, and he will easily conceive
what may be hid under the streets
of modern Jerusalem. 1t is Sir
Charles Warren, the present First
Commissioner of Police, who, as
Captain Warren, acted for the
Palestine Exploration Fund, that we
owe our first glimpses of "Under-
ground Jerusalem" He told us in
exact figures of the great depth of
rubbish which had gathered in the
valleys, and which, in spite of the
filling up, are still visible in the
ancient city. The work of Sir @.
Warren cleared up some points that
were formerly doubtful, but much
remains obscure. There are many
problems regarding the old topo-
graphy which cannot be solved till
further excavations are made. Pro-
minent among the points requiring
light to be thrown on them are the
exact positions of the Temple and
the Holy Sepulcher. The questions
have not only historical and
archaeological interest, but the
whole Christian world has naturally
q deep anxiety to know the exact
truth regarding them. AT present
no excavations can be carried on;
the Porte refuses all applications
for permission to explore where dig
ging might at present be done, and
it is only when the foundations of a
house require the clearing away of
the ground that chance brings some
thing to light.
Such q chance has lately taken
place. A new hotel had to be built
near the Jaffa gate-this was the
Mediterranean Hotel, which, as
visitors to Jerusalem will remember,
formerly stood not far within the
Damascus gate. The spot where
this took place may be described in
the words of the account which has
come home-it is sat the head OF
David street," not named directly
from the Royal Psalmist," but from
the Tower of David, which stands al
the end of it. Here, in clearing out
the foundations, old walls, canals
and cisterns were laid bare; but the
most important discovery was come
to at depth of fifteen feet. Here
were found the remains of an old
wall, which is supposed to have
been one of the ancient city walls,
and almost all the authorities are
agreed that it is the "second WALL
of Josephus which has been so long
sought for. About thirty yards Of
this wall have been uncovered. Two
courses, and in places three courses
of the stones remain in position,
These stones are large and similar
to those in the Tower of David
The line of the wall begins directly
opposite the tower, and runs to the
north, trending slightly to the west
So far it follows line parallel tt
the present wall running from the
J Jaffa gate to the northwest corner
of the city. The interest attaching
to this wall is peculiar. A grea
many people believe that the Holy
Sepulcher does not stand on Col
gotha, nor over the new sepulcher
"wherein was never man laid,'
which had been eXcavated in the
garden of Joseph of Arimathea
DR.. Robinson was not the first tt
express doubts on this subject, bu
he has dealt largely on it in his worl
on Jerusalem; Captain Gender pre-
fers for Golgotha, or Calvary, the
round mound, ''formed like skull
outside of the Damascus gate
General Gordon, who lived some
months in Jerusalem Immediately
before going to Khartoum, and de
voted his time exclusively to thu
study of the subject, also accepted
the knob of rock at the Damascus
gate as the most probable position
The connection existing between tn
Holy Sepulcher and the second wal
comes about in this way: The cruel
fixion took place without the gate
Now, the second wall is supposed t
be as old as the time of Hezekiah
and its existence at the time of thu
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