TRAVELS IN PALESTINE, &c. CHAP. XVI. RETROSPECTIVE VIEW OF JERUSADEM. Our excursions around the city being now closed, as well as our visits to the principal places within its walls, I sat down to take a retrospective view of the chief particulars which we had noted in detail, and to unite them into a more general picture. . - Jerusalem is seated on unequal ground, on a range of high hills, some few eminences of which are even higher than those on which the city itself stands, and in the midst of a rocky and barren space, which almost defies the efforts of human labour to fertilize by any common process. - VOL. II. B