h edition, vol. I, p. 342, and Besant and
Palmer's _Jerusalem_, chap. ix.]

[Footnote 80: Cf. the writings of Mukaddasi the
Hierosolomite, one of the publications of the Palestine
Pilgrims' Text Society. See also Edrisi's and Ali of Herat's
works. Chap. iii of Guy Le Strange's _Palestine_ gives full
extracts of Edrisi's account written in 1154 and Ali's in
1173. See also five plans of Jerusalem designed between 1160
and 1180, vol. XV, _Zeitschrift des Deutschen
Palaestina-Vereins._]

[Footnote 81: Ezek. xx. 35. The idea that the Gorge of
Jehoshaphat will be the scene of the last judgment is based
upon Joel iv. 2. Cf. M.N. Adler, _Temple at Jerusalem_ and
Sir Charles Warren's Comments.]

[Footnote 82: In memory of Absalom's disobedience to his
father, it is customary with the Jews to pelt this monument
with stones to the present day. The adjoining tomb is
traditionally known as that of Zechariah, 2 Chron. xxiv. 20,
King Uzziah, otherwise Azariah, was buried on Mount Zion,
close to the other kings of Judah, 2 Kings xv. 7. Cf. P.E.
F., _Jerusalem_, as to identification of sites. Sir Charles
Wilson, _Picturesque Palestine_, gives excellent
illustrations of the holy places, and his work might be
consulted with advantage.]

[Footnote 83: Pillars of salt are to be met with elsewhere,
for instance at Hammam Meskutim in Algeria. They are caused
by spouts of water, in which so great a quantity of salt is
contained as at times to stop up the aperture of the spring.
The latter, however, is again unsealed through cattle
licking off the salt near the aperture, and the same process
of filling up and unstopping goes on continually. Cf. Talmud
Berachot, 54 a.]

[Footnote 84: See Baedeker's _Palestine and Syria_, pp. 233,
236; also Schwartz, _Palestine_, 1852, p. 230 and Dr.
Robinson's _Palestine_, I, p. 516.]

[Footnote 85: Edrisi in 1154 writes: "The tomb is covered by
twelve stones, and above it is a dome vaulted over with
stones."]

[Footnote 86: Compare R. Pethachia's account of his visit
(_Travels of Rabbi Petachia_: translated by Dr. A. Benisch;
London, Truebner & Co., 1856, p. 63). See papers by
Professors Goldziher and Guthe (_Zeitschrift des Deutschen
Palaestina-Vereins_, XVII, pp. 115 and 238) for an account