You find here four places at which the waters rise from these separate sources ;

it is conveyed by little rivulets into a kind of basin, and from thence is carried by a large subterranean passage down into the pools. In the way, before it reaches the pools, there is an aqueduct. of brick pipes which receives part of the stream, and carries it by many turnings and windings about the mountain to Jerusalem."

Again, in speaking of the environs of Bethlehem, the same traveller thus more

particularly describes this aqueduct :

" About two. furlongs beyond David's well, lying west of Bethlehem, are to be seen remains of an old aqueduct, which anciently conveyed the waters of Solomon's pools to Jerusalem. This is said to be the genuine work of Solomon, and may well be allowed in reality, what it purports to be. It is carried all along on the surface of the ground, and

composed of stonest feet long, and feet thick, perforated with a cavity of inches diameter, to make a channel. These stones are let into each other with a fillet, framed round about the cavity to prevent leakage, and united to each other with so firm a cement, that they will sometimes sooner break (though of a coarse kind of marble) than endure separation. This train of stones was covered, for its greater security, with a case of marble stones laid over it in very strong mortar. The whole work seems endued with such absolute firmness, as if designed for eternity. But of this strong aqueduct, which