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FEOM ALEXANDRIA TO JOPPA AND JERUSALEM. 325
I'd love to wet my foot in Hermon's dews;
I'd love the promptings of Isaiah's muse;
In Carmel's holy grots I'd court repose,
And deck my mossy couch with Sharon's blooming rose."
This is Aug. 24. We enter Jerusalem by the Jaffa Gate,
and follow " Christian Street " to Mount Zion.
JERUSALEM AS IT
NOW IS.
poetry into dullest prose !
How often in life does sunshine fade away into cloudland,
So Jerusalem, which was so beautiful
an hour ago in the softening, fading light of the setting
sun, shrunk away to a trafficking Turkish city the moment we
entered within the gates.
The city has at present a population
of some twelve thousand, of whom three thousand four
hundred are denominated Christians, three thousand Jews,
and five thousand Mohammedans ; each class largely occupying
separate quarters. The streets are narrow, dirty, and
poorly paved. The houses, built of stone, look like fortresses,
presenting in front little more than blank walls.
Morning and evening they are crowded with Turks and
Arabs. The bazaars were sparsely supplied, with the
exception of fruits. The principal trade of the city consists
in beads and coins, crosses and relics. There are no gaslights,
as in Alexandria ; and therefore it was impossible to
see much of the city in evening-time. Stopping at the
Mediterranean Hotel on Mount Zion, kept by Mr. Honstein,
— a Free-Mason and a free-thinker, — we had a
dehghtful night's rest. Waking rested and refreshed, we
could say most heartily, " Pray for the peace of Jerusalem ;
they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy
walls, and prosperity within thy palaces."
OUR FIRST DAY IN THE CITY.
Out in early morning upon the housetop I saw the sun
rise from beyond the Jordan.
After a dehcious breakfast of
eggs, bread, honey, and several kinds of fruit, we started,