[11] Tent Work, p. 120.
[12] The Rob Roy has contributed gallantly to its exploration. To her captain’s book this chapter is under many obligations.
[13] Tent Work, chaps. xx., xxi.
[14] They are cut with a cross-chiselled margin, and rough outstanding rustic work in the centre. Their size and weight are enormous. One writer, whose sense of humour is hardly equal to his knowledge of Scripture, in describing them is carried away into the statement that “the Jewish architects, taught by their Phœnician neighbours, bestowed special care upon the corners of their great buildings. They show a finish, a solidity, and choice of material superior to other parts.... And how beautifully expressive is the language of the Psalmist, ‘our daughters are corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace’—one of the corner-stones of this angle weighs over a hundred tons”!
[15] For an account of these and others cf. Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, October 1901.
[16] See, however, Professor G. A. Smith’s Jerusalem, vol. i. pp. 189, 190.
[17] Haifa, Laurence Oliphant, pp. 317, 318.
[18] “Love among the Ruins,” Robert Browning.
[19] The Dawn of Art, Martin Conway, pp. 58-76.
[20] St. Symeon was a shepherd from the borderland between Cilicia and Syria.