Excerpt from Julian, or Scenes in Judea, Vol. 2: Two Volumes in One In the city above, and among the clefis of the rocks on which it stands, could the eye, pained as it had been by the barrenness of the desert and the shores and surface of the Salt Sea, now rest with an agreeable sense of re lief, upon the dark hues and heavy masses of this eastern foliage. Over the walls were to be seen the palm, the poplar, the sycamore, and the broad terebinth, shoot ing up and mingling their forms with those of the col umus and pinnacles of Herod's temples and palaces. All, that from such distance could be descried, gave signs of a population not insensible to any of the provis ions by which life is adorned, at least, if not fixrnished with additional means of happiness - and we pressed our way, anxious ere the sun should leave to pass the gates, and see more and from a nearer point of view of what filled us so with admiration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.