Excerpt from the beginning: "There are but few towns of great antiquity which have had so long and so uninterrupted a history as Jerusalem. Commencing its existence in prehistoric times, captured and almost destroyed again and again, it has always risen up after the times of desolation, and now, in the twentieth century, is a flourishing and important city, nearly three thousand years since King David selected it as the most suitable place to be the capital of the kingdom of Israel. In this respect its story is very ...
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Excerpt from the beginning: "There are but few towns of great antiquity which have had so long and so uninterrupted a history as Jerusalem. Commencing its existence in prehistoric times, captured and almost destroyed again and again, it has always risen up after the times of desolation, and now, in the twentieth century, is a flourishing and important city, nearly three thousand years since King David selected it as the most suitable place to be the capital of the kingdom of Israel. In this respect its story is very different from that of other great cities of the East, some of which, such as Nineveh and Babylon, are now forsaken heaps of ruins; some have changed their position; while, of others, the very sites are uncertain or unknown, so completely has the remembrance of them been obliterated. Although the fact that Jerusalem still stands in its original position is historically of great interest, it has the disadvantage of making it more difficult for the modern traveler to understand old Jerusalem, as city overlies city, and, in some places, the modern streets are nearly one hundred feet above the level of the old town; it is, therefore, only by the results of excavations, very difficult to make under the circumstances, that the ancient city can be approximately planned and described. It is clear that at no time could the town have stood at a lower level than the actual rock surface of the hill, and, if this rock surface could be thoroughly examined, it would form a starting point for dealing with the history; but, covered as it is with streets and houses, it is of course exceedingly difficult to get down to it, and it is only due to the explorations made by General Sir Charles Warren (then Captain Warren, R.E.) in 1867-70, and by those of the late Dr. Conrad Schick, and others, that it is possible to form some idea of what the group of hills, upon which the city stands, was like, before the first occupation by man. Such an idea is given in the annexed sketch plan, which may be regarded as fairly correct, so far as our present knowledge goes."
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