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PI)rbc8ranntPli(I'ItbFrom the Cincinnati!. Mirror.'1 HE CITYJERUSALEM.According to Josephus. Jerusalem was built in the Tear 2023 trem the Creation, in a rooky aucl barren soil,by Melchizedeck- ami was knowanciently toy several names. Its I ^ site occupied Mounts Moriah and Acra, and it was surrounded with mountains. Its territory and environs were watered by the springs cf Getion and Siloaui, and by the torrent or brook of Kedron. David built a new city, Mount Zion, opposite to the j o ancient oue^eiug sepauutud from it *lt; by the Vlpy of Mills;'be also aug- s mented and embellished the old citv; but Solomon, from tkj number and stateliness of the works which he erected, rendered Jurusalein oneof the most beautiful cities of theEast.It was during the reign of Tiberius, that Jerusalem was rfindertd i1 memorable to all succocding ages by , o the tUutli and resurrection of our 11 Lord anu Saviour Je»us Christ, who was crucjfied on Friday, April 2d, at S o'clock in the afiornoou, at the age j11 of 33,on Mount Calvary, a hill which ' was then without the walls on Itoo North side of .the city.Jerusalem was taken ar.d destroyed by Titus, D. 70. At the seige, according to Josephus, 97,000 prisoners Tell into the bands of the conqueror, 11,000 perished with hunger, and the evhole number slain nnd taken prisoners duriog the war w as 1,460,- j J000. In the year 130, Adrian under* took to'rebuild the city, and gave to it the name of .ASlia Capotalina,which name it bore until the time of I oConstantine. It was taken in 614 by Uthe Persians, in‘63Gby the Saracens, ‘ and in 1099 by the Crusaders, who founded a kingdom which lasted till 1187, when it was taken down by $1din, king of Egypt. In 1517, it was taken by the Turks, who have kept possession of it ever lt;£neoThe modern city bt Jerusalem isbail! on Motto* ’,|0rinh. The ascenton evcir gjde is steeple the north, almost surrounded by volleys,liJInalivihQA
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