this is a Greek Chapel, from the lamps and pictures under the roof. That curious arrangement on the left is for the purpose of lowering down into the well a coil of lighted magnesium wire, enabling the visitor to see the walls of the well and its water far below. Every traveler now receives a cup of water, cool and refreshing, from the depths of the patriarch’s well. At present the well contains water most of the time, but if it were fully cleared out, it would undoubtedly be a perennial spring.