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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Frontispiece: Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem.

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1. Assyrian representation of the Tree of Life 14
2. The Ark 37
3. Noe in the Ark with the returning dove 42
4. Birs Nimrud (Tower of Confusion) 47
5. View of Nabulus (Sichem) 53
6. Bedouins riding on their Camels 56
7. The Dead Sea 63
8. View of Hebron 73
9. Bethel 81
10. Rachel’s Tomb near Bethlehem 87
11. Gathering grapes 98
12. Treading the grapes 98
13. Wine-press 98
14. Inundation of the Nile 101
15. King sitting on his throne, giving audience to a governor 103
16. Egyptian wheat 105
17. Egyptian painted coffin for depositing the embalmed body 119
18. Egyptian mummy-coffin 120
19. Lepers in Palestine 125
20. Israelites forced to labour in Egypt (brick-making) 129
21. Head of Pharao (Menephtah I.) 136
22. Locust 138
23. Egyptian King (Ramses II.) on his chariot, taking a hostile fortress 146
24. Egyptian soldiers 147
25. Mount Sinai with St. Catherine’s Convent in the foreground 153
26. Apis 159
27. The Tabernacle in the desert 162
28. Ark of the Covenant 163
29. Altar of incense 163
30. Seven-branched Candlestick 163
31. Table of the loaves of proposition 164
32. Altar of holocausts 164
33. Breast-Plate (Rational) of the High Priest 169
34. Priest 170
35. High Priest 171
36. Mount Nebo 188
37. Ruins of Jericho 192
38. Type of Philistine (ulasati) 197
39. Dagon 200
40. So-called field of Booz near Bethlehem 206
41. David's Tower at Jerusalem 233
42. Musical Instruments of old Egypt 234
43. Musical Instruments of the Assyrians 235
44. Valley of Josaphat with Absalom’s Tomb 242
45. Sepulchre of David in Sion at Jerusalem 249
46. Cedars on Mount Lebanon 254
47. God Moloch 265
48. Place where ancient Sarepta stood 266
49. Mount Carmel 270
50. Eliseus’ spring near Jericho 280
51. Shark 288
52. Sennacherib on his throne 293
53. Bethulia (Sanur) 316
54. Cameo with inscription of Nabuchodonozor 322
55. Jeremias’ Grotto near Jerusalem 323
56. Bel with lion 335
57. Monument of Cyrus at Murghab 341
58. Ruins of the Palace of Assuerus (Xerxes I.) at Persepolis 352
59. Zeus (Jupiter) 361
60. Coin of Simon Machabeus (silver shekel) 374
61. Church of the Annunciation at Nazareth 386
62. St. John in the Mountains 391
63. Bethlehem 398
64. Church of the Nativity and Convent at Bethlehem 399
65. Grotto of the Nativity in the Church at Bethlehem 400
66. The Temple of Herod 407
67. Myrrh 413
68. So-called Place of Temptation on Mt. Quarantine 430
69. Jerusalem 443
70. Jacob’s well near Sichar to-day 449
71. Lake of Genesareth with the Ruins of Tiberias 462
72. Mount of the Beatitudes 468
73. Site of ancient Naim 489