A Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, Palestine

Underwood & Underwood · (c) 1900

You have come down a flight of stone steps into the little Chapel that has been built about the old well, in the valley between Mt. Ebal and Mt. Gerizim. Here is a woman of Samaria, just drawing water! Indeed she is a real Samaritan woman from the very village of Iscar (Sychar of the Bible) that the woman came from whom Christ met... You see this is a Greek Chapel, from the lamps and pictures under the roof. That curious arrangement at 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 traveller now receives a cup of water, cool and refreshing, from the depths. (See "Travelling in the Holy Land by the Stereoscope," with special, keyed maps, locating each standpoint taken and identifying the landmark.) From Notes of Travel, No. 7, copyright, 1904, by Underwood & Underwood.