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JERUSALEM, FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 
No. 11.

This view completes the panorama of Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives. It is taken, as I stated in the previous article, from a point a little below the Church of the Ascension. We now present a Map of the city and neighborhood, which will enable the reader to identify most of the conspicuous objects in these views. 

[[Picture, map]]

The Gate, from which several roads diverge, leading down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, is St. Stephen's. Over this gate are sculptured four lions, which shows, as Dr. Robinson remarks, that it was not the work of the Mohammedans. Jerusalem has now only four open gates—one on each of the four sides of the city. The angle of the wall to the right of the present picture encloses a large tract of uninhabited ground covered with ruins.  Passing round the corner of the wall, the traveller next reaches the Damascus Gate, near which is an extraordinary excavation, recently discovered. The entrance is outside the wall, and is very low; but it leads to a perfect labyrinth of subterranean passages, which appear to have served as quarries; they extend under the greater part of the city. 
   The elevation of the Mount of Olives is, according to Schubert, 2556 Paris feet above the sea, 416 feet above the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and 177 feet about the highest point of Mount Zion.