LETTERS

FROM

99.26

THE OLD WORLD.

BY

A LADY OF NEW-YORK.

Sarah Rogers #aight

"Know ye the land of the cedar and vine,

Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine?

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

MAR 5 1941

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

LETTER XXIV.

En Route to Palestine.-Lady Hester Stanhope.-Reverend Joseph Wolff.

-Sidon.-Mutations of Commerce.-The Fall of Rome.-Commerce in

the olden Time.-Westward March of Commerce

LETTER XXV.

Page 9

Tyre.-Prophecies against Tyre.-Fulfilment of Prophecy.-Tyrian Dye.

-Maronites.-Sight of a Hareem.-Jewish Pilgrims.-Wells of Solo-

Nazareth.-Acre.-Empress Helena.- Decay of Palestine.-A Serenade.

-The Tale of the Crusaders.-An Adventure.-A Night Alarm.-Ap-

proach to Nazareth.-Church of the Annunciation.-Monkish Legends.

-Sincerity in Delusion

LETTER XXVII.

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Arrival at Jerusalem.-Early Christian Ages.-Hopes of Zion.—Miracle of

the Wine.-Place of the first Miracle.-Mount of Beatitudes.-Tiberias.

-The Sea of Galilee.-The Khan described.-Mount Tabor.-Plain of

Esdraelon.-City of Samaria.-Tomb of Joseph

LETTER XXVIII.

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Site of Shiloh.-Capture of Shiloh's Daughters.-Beth-el.-Jacob's Vision.

-First Sight of the Holy City.-Eligible Lodging-place.-The Holy

City.-Present State of Jerusalem.-Poetic Travellers.-Jerusalem as it

was.-The Hills of Jerusalem

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LETTER XXIX.

Moods of Travellers.-Worshippers at the Holy City.-Emotions of the

Christian.-Topography of Jerusalem.-Walls of Jerusalem.-Pool of