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Saviour, who had said, ‘One stone of it should not be left above above another,’ twice attempted to rebuild it about the year 360, but earthquakes and flames of fire dispersed their materials, and killed a vast number of their workmen. 10. The place where Christ was scourged, now a shop for linen cloth. 11. The house of Annas, where our Saviour being hurrled with violence down a steep place, to prevent falling, he laid hold of the corner of a wall, where there is a place in one of the stones fit for a man’s hand, which the father's account a great miracle.12. Simon, the Pharisees house, where there is a stone, with the print of a foot, which they said our Saviour made, when he stood to pardon Mary Magdalen’s sins. The fathers say, the Turks have oftentimes endeavoured to remove this stone, but still it comes to the same place again. 13. The house of Joakim and Anna, a fair high building; and in an under room, cut out of the rock is the place where they say the Virgin Mary was born. 14. The pool of Bethsaida, where the sick lay to be healed, on the angel coming to trouble the water, and he that entered first was healed; it is about 120 paces long, 50 broad, and 8 deep, but it is now dry, and half filled with earth.15. St. Stephen’s gate, and a little out of the city is the place where Stephen was stoned, and the fathers fancy that there is the print of his hands, face and knees, when he fell down. 16. The valley of Jehosaphat, at the bottom of the bill, between the mountain on which Jerusalem stands and Mount Olivet. 17. The place where the Virgin Mary is buried; whence going down a great many stone steps, you come into a large vault, where all the Christians have their altars apart, all being of several opinions, and the Turks and Christians both burn lamps over her grave: Here we pay one livre for entrance, and 48 stone steps upward is Joseph’s tomb, and against that, the tomb of Joakim and Anna. 18. The place where Christ sweat blood, and the angel appeared to comfort him, is near the bottom of Mount Olivet. 19 The place where our Saviour prayed that this cup might pass from him; and near that is the rock on which his disciples sat, when he went to prayer, between which two places he was taken; it is now bordering on the garden of Gethsemane, but might formerly be part of the garden, and is on the ascent of Mount Olivet: Where the multitude going to carry our Saviour away, Peter smote off Malchus’s ear. Mount Olivet is now about 600 paces east of Jerusalem, and separated from it by the valley of Jehosaphat, and brook Kidron; it has three tops, the most northern is the highest, and the southern the lowest. 20. The place where they say the Virgin Mary prayed for St. Stephen, while he was a stoning. 21. Where Christ wept over Jerusalem, it is almost at the top of Mount Olivet. 22. The place where our Saviour ascended into heaven, having, as they say, left the print of his foot on a stone, it hath now a chapel built