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PLAN OF JERUSALEM
By favour of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
west, south, and east sides, by ravines more than usually
deep and precipitous. These ravines leave the level of the
table-land, the one on the west and the other on the north-east
of the city, and fall rapidly until they form a junction
below its south-east corner. The eastern one—the Valley
of the Kedron, commonly called the Valley of Jehoshaphat—runs
nearly straight from north to south. But the
western one—the Valley of Hinnom—runs south for a
time, and then takes a sudden bend to the east until it
meets the Valley of Jehoshaphat, after which the two rush
off as one to the Dead Sea. How sudden is their descent
may be gathered from the fact that the level at the point
of junction—about a mile and a quarter from the starting-point
of each—is more than 600 feet below that of the upper
plateau from which they commenced their descent. Thus
