CHAPTER X.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RUINS OF SHUSHAN, CITY OF QUEEN

ESTHER, MORDECAI, AND HAMAN-DESCRIPTION OF

THE RUINS OF ATHLEET, AND THE WILD ARAB TRIBE

THAT INHABITS THE PLACE-DESCRIPTION OF THE

HAURAN, LAND OF MYSTERY, ITS RUINS OF DESERTED

CITIES AND VILLAGES--DESCRIPTION OF THE RUINS OF

THE SPLENDID ANCIENT CITY OF PERGAMOS-OF GE-

RASH-SHILOH-RABBAH SARDIS-TARSUS-TIBERIAS

CESAREA-SOURCES OF THE JORDAN-CAPERNAUM

-ANTIOCH-EPHESUS-GADARALYDDA - NAZARETH

-ATHLEET.....

......PAGE 344

CHAPTER XI.

THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS-ORIGIN OF THE ORDER-THE

FATAL BATTLE OF HATTIN-MASSACRE OF THE KNIGHTS

-DESCRIPTION OF THE REMARKABLE ANCIENT CITY OF
KERAK, A STRONGHOLD OF TUE KNIGHTS, .PAGE 400

CHAPTER XII.

PYTHAGORAS — HIS BIRTHPLACE, EDUCATION, TRAVELS,

PHILOSOPHY, GREAT INFLUENCE AND RENOWN, AND

THE TRAGIC TERMINATION OF HIS CAREER. .PAGE 423

CHAPTER XIII.

EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES-SINGULAR RITES AND CEREMONIES

PERTAINING THERETO—THE FIRST FORM OF INITIATION

EVER PRACTISED....

431

CHAPTER XIV.

DAVID'S TOMB-CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE-GETH-

SEMANE-GOLGOTHA, ITS SINGULAR APPEARANCE

HOLY SEPULCHREPLACE OF ASCENSION........PAGE 459

CHAPTER XV.

THE BUILDING OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.

MT. MORIAH-DAVID'S PREPARATION FOR BUILDING THE

TEMPLE AND CHARGE TO SOLOMON-SOLOMON BUILDS

THE TEMPLE-ITS DEDICATION-DESTRUCTION...PAGE 479

ILLUSTRATIONS,

TOPOGRAPHICAL PLAN OF JERUSALEM, AND THE SITE OF

KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. FRONTISPIECE-A LITHOGRAPH–THE SITE OF THE TEMPLE. JERUSALEM AS IT WAS, B. 0. 1012.

SITE. KING SOLOMON'S CISTERNS. ROBINSON'S ARCH AND SECTION OF THE WALL OF THE

TEMPLE ENCLOSURE.

THE

ANCIENT QUARRY UNDER JERUSALEM, IN WHICH

STONES WERE QUARRIED FOR SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. INTERIOR VIEW OF WILSON'S ARCHES.

THREE COURSES OF STONES IN THE FOUNDATION WALLS

OF THE TEMPLE ENCLOSURE, WITH THE PRIVATE
MARKS ON THEM.

INTERIOR VIEW OF A GALLERY AT THE FOUNDATION

OF THE WALL. EXPLORER EXAMINING MARKS.

INTERIOR VIEW OF THE ANCIENT QUARRY UNDER JERU

SALEM, IN WHICH THE STONES WERE QUARRIED

FOR THE TEMPLE.

PILASTER IN MASONIO HALL,

ANCIENT FIGURED PAVEMENT.

MT. LEBANON AND THE BAY FROM WHICH THE TIMBER

WAS FLOATED FOR THE TEMPLE.

THE CITY OF JOPPA, WHERE THE TIMBER WAS LANDED

THE CITY OF TYRE AS IT NOW IS.

HIRAM'S TOMB NEAR THE CITY OF TYRE.
HIRAM'S WELL.
KING SOLOMON'S STORE OITIES -THEIR RUIN&

BAALBEK.

TADMOR.

KIRJATE JEARIM,

HEBRON.

BAMARIA,

SIDON.

GEBAL.

THE RUINS OF NINEVEH.

THE RUINS OF BABYLON.

THE RUINS OF SHUSHAN.

DAMASCUS.

EPHRAIM.

DAVID'S MOSQUE AND TOMB.

MOUNT ARARAT.

A GROUP OF CAPTIVES.

KING SOLOMON, FROM AN ANCIENT SCULPTURE.
COLLECTING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR REBUILDING

RUINS OF THE GREAT FORTRESS OF KERAK-A FAMOUS

STRONGHOLD OF THE CRUSADERS.

SEVERAL ENGRAVINGS, GIVING VIEWS OF LEBANON

SCENERY -ITS INHABITANTS THEIR DWELLINGS,

ETC.