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Ihe approach to Jerusalem. From the valley of Jeremiah, the traveller towards Zion descends into that which bears the name of Turpentine, and is deeper and narrower than the otber.- Here are observed some vineyards, and a few patches of doura. He next ar rives at the brook where the youthful David picked up the five smooth stones, with one of which he slew the gigantic

 Goliah. Having crossed the stream, he perceives the village of Heriet.Let- ia, on the baIk oi, another dry channel, which resembles a dusty road. El Bire

 appears in the distance on the summit

 of a lofty hill on theway to Nablous, the

 Shechem of the lsraelites and the Nea- polls of the Herods. He now pursues his course through a desert, where wild fig trees thinly scattered wave their eTn- Drowned leaves in the southern bree- zes. The ground which had hitherto exhibited some verdure, becomes alto- gether bare the sides of the mountains, expanding themselves, assume at once an appearance of greater grandeur and sterility. Presently all vegetation ceases, even the very mosses disappear. The confused amphitheatre of the mountains is tinged with red and VI y;d color. Tn this drearv rnCiOn he