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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Psalms, xl: 7,8.)--'Then said I, Lo, I come; in
the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O, my God; yea, the law is within my heart.' Alphonse
de Lamartine, member of the French Academy, after losing in Palestine his only daughter, Julia, wrote in the Garden of Gethsemane
one of the saddest poems, part of which we quote: 'At the dry, dusty base of Olive's Mount Under the shade of Zion's ruined
walls, Lies a dark valley whence the sun's clear light Is quite shut out. There Cedron slowly rolls His scanty waves between
his arid banks; There in the hillside lies Jehoshaphat entombed. Instead of grass the barren soil bears only ruins, And the
ancient trees cleave with their straggling roots the stony tombs. There between two high rocks is dimly seen The lonely grot
to which the Man of Grief Went to experience death before it came.'" A name has been printed at lower left of the photograph
Garden of Gethsemane, showing the laid out sections and fencing and, in the background, the eastern walls of the city of Jerusalem
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