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of Benjamin. Since that time, and throughout the New Testament,
Scripture is silent on the subject of Anathoth. The literal meaning of
the word Anathoth mm? is, an answer, song, affliction : in the Septua-
gint it is written 'AvaOiod. In the modern Arabic ^ b>.
Remains on the Mount of Olives .—Having taken the bearing of
a place situated on a high round hill, and which was described
as a ruined village called Jajul N. 40° W. from Anathoth,
I returned to Jerusalem, resolving to visit Hai on the first op
portunity. A few days afterwards, accompanied by Mr. Critchlow,
the architect of the first Protestant Church on Mount Zion, I
again repaired to Anathoth, and proceeded on horseback by way of
Hizmeh towards the site which had been pointed out to me by the
Bedouin shepherd as the Khirbet-el-IJai. But, previous to giving the
particulars of our route, it may be as well to mention, that in returning
to Jerusalem from my first trip, I look the upper road, along the top of
the Olivet ridge from Isawtyeh, which lies a little to the east of that
leading directly over the ridge to Jerusalem already described. During
the whole of this evening’s walk along this elevated edge the prospect to
the E., W., and S. of it, was superb : the sides of the hills were covered
with wheat, and dotted with olives; and the rays of the sun, fast sinking
behind the western mountains of Judea, threw the highly irregular and
picturesque surface of the country into a variety of light and shade
absolutely magical in its effect. On the one side, golden wheat fields and
smiling verdure; on the other, the gloomy abyss of El-Ghor, and
the dark waters of the accursed lake, sleeplessly heaving at the bottom of
their deep basin. During this walk I again made diligent search for
the site of Nob—as may be supposed. About of a mile Northerly
from the Church of the Ascension, and the village of Et-Tur —which
crown the central peak of the Mount of Olives, on a small plateau
I came upon the remains of an ancient paved road, and the fragments of
two columns still erect:—a few foundations could be traced in the
adjacent wheat fields, but the whole of the ground of the Northern pait
of the Mount of Olives has been so often turned over by the plough that
it would be matter of wonder if any distinct traces of an ancient city,
like that of Nob, should be remaining in situ at the present clay. u
I am of opinion that the modern village of Et-Tur, and the Chinch
of the Ascension, mark its southern extermitv, and that its northern
wing extended towards the Jerusalem and Anathoth road wnere
crosses the ridge, comprising a distance of nearly 1000 paces alon 0