LEFT: Kubbet es Sukhrah – Dome of the Rock.     RIGHT: Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.     LEFT: Jami'a el Aksa – the Remotest Mosk.           RIGHT: Tantura – Dor.     LEFT: Athlit – Castellum Perigrinorum.                   RIGHT: Saracenic fountain at Jaffa.     LEFT: Na'urah, Persian water-wheel.                      RIGHT: Jaffa and its gardens.     LEFT: Jaffa, from the south-west.                           RIGHT: Birket Israil – Pool of Bethesda.     LEFT: Kaisariyeh – Caesarea from the south.          RIGHT: El Jesmaniyeh – Gethsemane. THE above engravings, dated 1879, are from The Land and the Book (1881), by William M Thomson, a missionary for 45 years in Syria and Palestine. He describes Jerusalem as "the common property of the whole Christian world", but admits that, "on approaching the Holy City, you enter upon an arena of great uncertainty and endless controversy. Nearly every author who has written about Jerusalem has some special theory in regard to questions Biblical, theological, topographical, or legendary, which he seeks to explain and defend. With the exception of the general outlines of the city, there is scarcely an identification which has not been disputed, and the discussions about them have not only been earnest but long, and often acrimonious." — Adil Ireland, adilbookz.com Click here for more pictures