The Biblical Keepsake; Or, Landscape Illustrations of the Most Remarkable Places Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, with Descriptions by T.H. Horne (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...Holy City, and the three hills on which it stood are distinctly seen. A rhier or more imposing stand could not have been selected for the denunciation of woe against Jerusalem. The panoramic view, exhibited in our engraving, is truly magnificent. "Below, about the distance of a musket-shot, separated only by the deep and narrow ravine," or valley, "of Jehoshaphat, Mount Moriah rises steeply from the brook Kedron, crowned by the celebrated Mosque of Omar: behind, the domes of the sanctuary of the Holy Sepulchre and other churches, convents, ten mosques, and minarets, rising in succession, exhibit a very striking appearance; the whole city lying so completely exposed to view, that the eye of the beholder can 'walk about Zion and go round about her, tell the towers thereof, ' and 'mark well her bulwarks.' (Psal. xlviii. 12, 13.) As seen from hence, though trodden down to the dust, and Reft of her sons, of all her hopes forlorn, 'the widowed daughter of Zion' still displays sufficient grandeur to aid the imagination in painting her as she once existed, 'the perfection of beauty'--' the joy of the whole earth;' but upon entering into her walls, the illusion is sadly dissipated." "The site of Jerusalem is peculiarly adapted to have appeared in beauty, when its hills were terraced after the manner of the East, and were verdant with the olive, the fig-tree, and the vine: but that, which was then its beauty, now adds to its deformity; and the bare and blasted rocks seem to say that God in his anger has passed by, and cursed the city for its sins. There are rocks, but they have no sublimity; fields and gardens, but they have no richness; valleys, but they have no fertility; a distant sea, but it is the Dead Sea. No sound is now heard, but that...