"Anyway one can scarcely cut Judah out of Jerusalem altogether; yet that
is always done, except by a few. If the juncture is as I have drawn it,
it brings Gibeon, Nob, and Mizpah all down too close to Jerusalem on the
Western Hills. This is part of my studies. Here is the Skull Hill north
of the City (traced from map, ordnance of 1864), which I think is the
Golgotha; for the victims were to be slain on north of altar, not west,
as the Latin Holy Sepulchre. This hill is close to the old church of
St. Stephen, and I believe that eventually near here will be found the
Constantine churches.
"I have been, and still am, much interested in these parts, and as it is
cheap I shall stop here. I live at Ain Karim, five mile from Jerusalem.
There are few there who care about antiquities. Schink, an old German,
is the only one who is not a bigot. Have you ever written on Palestine?
I wondered you never followed up your visit to Harar; that is a place
of great interest. My idea is that the Pison is the Blue Nile, and
that the sons of Joktan were at Harar, Abyssinia, Godjam; but it is not
well supported.
"The Rock of Harar was the platform Adam was moulded on out of clay from
the Potter's Field. He was then put in Seychelles (Eden), and after Fall
brought back to Mount Moriah to till the ground in the place he was taken
from. Noah built the Ark twelve miles from Jaffa, at Ain Judeh; the
Flood began; the Ark floated up and rested on Mount Baris, afterwards
Antonia; he sacrificed on the Rock (Adam was buried on the Skull Hill,
hence the skull under the cross).
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