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now! Even the very tombs, whose open
doors are stretching away in long ranges
before the eyes Of the wondering traveller
connot reveal your doom. Your dry bones
are gone. The robber has invaded your
graves, and your very ashes have been
swept to make room for the wandering
Arab ofthe desert"


No description without the aid of the
plates, can give an adequate conception Of
the ruins of this wonderful city. Sufficient
may be gathered from the preceding ac-
count, to convince every reader, that Petra
was once a populOus, wealthy and luxu-
rious city, adorned with temples, arches and
theatres; and that it was for a thousand
years utterly forgotten, and that it is now
destitute of single inhabitant.


The most interesting and important con-
sideration connected with the sity is, that its
ruin a distinct fulflmeni of the ancient
prophecies, jeremiah, Isaiah, Amos, Joel,
Obediah and Malachi, have announced the
desolation of Edom, and some Of them in
language, which most graphically describes
the situation of Petra, Sin the elefts of the
rocks" and in "the height of the hill "
MIR Stevens says: "Amid all the terrible
denunciations against the land of Idumea,
'her citizens and the inhabitants thereof
this proud city among the rocks doubtless
for IFS extraordinary sins, was always mark
ed as q subject of extraordinary vengeance.
81 have sworn by myself, saith the Lord,
that Bozrah (the strong or fortified city)
shall become desolation, reproach, and
a waste and curse, and all the cities there
OF shall be perpetual waste. Lo, | will
make thee small among the heather, and
despised among men. Thy terribleness
hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine
heart, o thou that dwelIest in the clefts of
the rock, that holdest the height of the hills; !;
tho thou shouldst make thy nest as high as
the eagle, Iwlll bring thee down from thence
saith the Lore" )" "They shall call the
mobiles; thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be
nothing; and thorns shall come up in her
palaces, nettles and brambles in the for.
tresses thereof, and it shall be habitation
for dragons and court for owls.'t


| would that the skeptic could stand as
did, among the ruins Of this city among the
rocks, and there open the sacred book and
read the words of the inspired penmen,
written when this desolate place was one
of the greatest cities in the world.