Chapter XXXVI. The Author of The Metrical Survey of Syria on the Same

‘THE author of the Metrical Survey of Syriasays in his first book that Jerusalem lies upon a lofty and rugged site: and that some parts of the wall are built of polished stone, but the greater part of rubble; and that the city has a circuit of twenty-seven furlongs, and that there is also within the place a spring which spouts up abundance of water.