It is a fact not infrequently forgotten by travellers in Palestine that one lias to search far below the present level ot' towns in order to reach the actual site of the incidents recorded for us in the. Gospel narrative. In special parts of Jerusalem' it is necessary z> dig down 70ft in order to find * the ground on which Christ must have walked. For instance, the Frcncn Sisters have a small convent with the Church of "Ecce Homo" attached to it. and here, by excavation, not so deep as 70ft, but still a considerable way below tho surface, they have found three arches of tho Prcetorium of Pontius Pilate. Tho general custom seems to havo been to build on the top cf mini rather than to dig for foundations.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16162, 16 March 1918, Page 12
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