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Photograph is printed in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Psalms, cxxii:2.)--'Our feet shall stand
within thy gates, O Jerusalem.' Damascus gate, or the gate of the column through which passes the north road to Galilee and
Damascus, is the most ornamental of all the gates which stand in the walls of Jerusalem. It is made picturesque because of
its many turrets and battlements. The Damascus gate, according to Bartlet, is a fine piece of Saracenic architecture. Other
authorities claim that it dates back to a more remote antiquity than Bartlet supposes. This gate is not a great ways from
the place supposed by many now to be the site of Mount Calvary. The tombs of the kings are about 1100 paces north of Damascus
gate. Next to Jaffa gate, the Damascus gate is the one most frequently used of any in the Jerusalem walls." See 5382BAI/LVii108CAJS
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Damascus Gate showing the battlements
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