SCRAPS FOR THE CURIOUS.
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The PooI.s OF SOLOMON These large,
strong and noble structures, in land
where every work Of art has been hurried
to destruction, remain now almost as per-
feet as when they were built. There are
thre of them, about 4S0 600, and 600
feet in length, and 208 in breadth, and OF
different attitudes; the water from the first
running into the second, and from the Sec
ond into the third. AT about one hundred
yards distance is the spring which supplies
the reservoirs. as the monks say the SCALED
fountain referred to in the cantcles Iv.12.
The water from these reservoirs is convey
ed to Jerusalem by small aqueduct a
round earthen pipe about 10 inches in dI-
ameter, which follow all the sinuosities of
the ground, being sometimes under It's
easily broken; and while was in Jerusa-
lem, an accident happened which entirely
cut off the water from these pools. There
is every reason to believe that these pools
have existed from the date assigned to
to them and that this was the site OF one OF
king Solomon's houses of pleasure, where
he made himself s'gardens and orchards,
and pools of water" The rain here ceased
for few moments, and enabled me to
view them at my leisure and as | walked


along the bank or stood ON the rnargin,for


descended the steps to the waters edge, It
seemed almost the wild suggestion OF a
dream, TO imagine that the wisest of men
had looked into the same pool, and strolled
along the same bank, and stood on the very
same steps. 1t was like annihilating all
the intervals of time and space. Solomon