Front matter

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From a Photograph by C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq.] [Frontispiece. THE DOME OF THE ROCK.

JERUSALEM,

THE CITY OF HEROD AND SALADIN.

BY

WALTER BESANT, M.A.,

CHRIST’S COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE.

AUTHOR OF “STUDIES IN EARLY FRENCH POETRY,” ETC., ETC., ETC.

AND

E. H. PALMER, M.A.,

LORD ALMONER’S PROFESSOR OF ARABIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF

CAMBRIDGE, AND FELLOW OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE.

AUTHOR OF THE “DESERT OF THE EXODUS.”

ETC., ETC., ETC.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,

NEW BURLINGTON STREET,

Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

1871.

[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

LONDON

PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

AND CHARING CROSS.

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