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264 TRAVELS IN EGYPT, NUBIA,rity, even to death, by throwing the offenders into the sea.The slightest liberty of look or speech was punished withbastinado. The soldiers keep a watch by night, patrollingthe town and walls, and proclaiming at intervals that all is4right; butj as in all Turkish towns, there were no sentries.JERUSALEM.This town is surrounded by walls of stone, with battlementsconsisting of square towers at intervals, without cannon.It is commanded in all directions: the walls seem intendedonly to repel the incursions of Arabs, and appear tohave been built as far back as in the time of the Crusades.In the foundations are stones of immense size, and some ofthe saliant angles are strengthened by layers of a size muchlarger than the rest, and corresponding with those of thefoundation. An escalade would be difficult on the north,south, and east, from the ravines which lie beneath them.The castle, also apparently of the earliest times after theCrusades, is situated on the south-west end of the town, onMount Sion, It is composed of towers connected by curtains,which form two or three enclosures, the interior successivelycommanding the exterior: a few old guns mountedon carriages, equally old and unserviceable, were on the walls.ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ