Jerusalem, the city of the Great King

Underwood & Underwood · (c) 1903

We are standing on the Mount of Olives, just behind a modern Russian church, looking directly west across the valley of the Brook Kedron to Mount Moriah and the walled city of Jerusalem. The walled enclosure down in the valley at the right of this Russian church is the Garden of Gethsemane, with its cypress and ancient olive trees. Bethlehem is six miles away at our left (S. W.); the Sea of Galilee is 70 miles distant at our right; 16 miles behind us the Jordan pours its waters into the Dead Sea; beyond Jerusalem, in the direction in which we are standing now, stand the mountains, and then below their farther slopes the plains of Sharon, and then the shores of the Mediterranean less than 40 miles from here in a straight line. From Notes of Travel, No. 11, copyright, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood.