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Julian of Ephesus, now the presumptive Philadelphus Maccabaeus, rode

up the broad brown bosom of a hill that had confronted him for miles

to the south, and the sun had sloped until its early spring rays

struck level from the west At the su of the breath

Below him lay Jerusalem

South and east the barren summits of brown hills shaped a depression

in which the city lay North, clean-white and regular, the wall of

Agrippa was printed against the cold blue of the sky Below on three

lesser oodliest city

in all Asia

About it and through it climbed such walls, planted on such bold

natural escarpment, that made it the hest hill stood a vision of emstone--the Temple Behind it towered Roe spanned a deep, populous ravine The high

broad street upon which the giant causeway terminated was marked by

the soleainst the

Tower of Hippicus--a vast and unflinching citadel of stone Under the

shadow of this pile was the high place of the Herods; in sight was a

second Herodian palace South was the open space of the great ment of the outer as the sehbor by ancient walls were Ophlas,

overlooking Tophet and under the shadow of the Temple; Mount Zion