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BURIED CITES AND BIBLE COUNTRIES.
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PLAN OF THE SILOAM TUNNEL.
(By favour of the Palestine Exploration Fund.)
north and south by 18 feet east and west, and is about
20 feet deep. At the north end an archway, 5 feet wide,
appears, leading to a small vault, 12 feet long, in which is a
descent from the level of the top of the pool to the level of
the channel supplying it. In the year 1880 one of the
pupils of Herr Conrad Schick, the architect of the Church
Missionary Society, while climbing down fell into the
water, and on rising to the surface noticed the appearance
