Proposed water supply and sewerage for Jerusalem : with description of its present state and former resources / by John Irwine Whitty.

  • Whitty, John Irwine, 1822-?
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Proposed water supply and sewerage for Jerusalem : with description of its present state and former resources / by John Irwine Whitty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    these may be the Fountain of the Bath of Healing, with its capacious gallery, or lodgment; another may be the Pool of Hezekiah, to which a partly- covered passage is ascertained to exist, from the Upper Pool of Gihon, as mentioned in Chap. II., Sec. 9; a third, the greatest of all, may be the Pool of Bethesda, which I have no doubt, for the reason mentioned in Chap. II., Sec. 12—to my mind conclusive—was sup- plied by a tunnel from a distant locality ; originally, perhaps, by Hezekiah, and subsequently, as mentioned in the last Section referred to, by Pilate; who may have either reconstructed the old aqueduct of Heze- kiah, or aided it by a new one from a distant locality, to obtain a greater quantity of water. An exploration in search of these would be attended with exceedingly great interest. The small aqueduct lately discovered in excavating for the foundation of the Prussian Hospice may likewise have been a portion of one of the aqueducts either of Hezekiah or Pilate. For these and other reasons connected with the nature of the locality, I am strongly impressed with the opinion that there may exist at Ain es-Suani a well, covered over, sealed and hidden; and that from it, a deep-seated aqueduct, possibly the work