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Traveling in the Holy Land Through the Stereoscope is a 100 photo tour of Palestine prepared by Jesse Lyman Hurlbutt around the turn of the century. Admittedly, this is something of a novelty product, but it has a rare quality of antiquity. It is like looking not at 100 year old photos, but at thousand year old photos as most of the major changes to the landscape and customs have taken place in...

Yonder, rising outside the city walls, to the east, is the Mount of Olives, crowned by a modern Russian tower. But how plainly we can trace those three paths climbing the hill! By one of those, certainly—more likely by all of them at different times—your Saviour and mine walked over the Mount of Olives to Bethany, which lies on the other side of the mountain. Now, the hillside is bleak and bare, with comparatively few trees. Then it was
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