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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    CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction, by the Rev. Arthur P. Stanley, D.D., Chaplain to H. E. H. the Prince of Wales, Canon of Christ's Church, and Reghis Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Univer- sity of Oxford, Author of Sinai and Palestine, The Eastern Church, « The Jewish Church, &c. . . ix Preface (including Observations by Sir Culling E. Eardley, Bart.) xiii CHAPTER I. Section 1. Extent and Population of the Ancient City . . 37 „ 2. Minimum Quantity of Water which could have sufficed for such a Population ... . .60 „ 3. Extent and Population of the Present City . .64 „ 4. Quantity of Water supplied to the Present City . 65 u 5. Quantity of Water per House and Inhabitant, com- pared with that in London . . . .78 „ 6. Least Quantity of Water sufficient for an Eastern City 79 CHAPTER II. existing water works, in a state of efficiency or otherwise. Section 1. The Brook Kidron 81 „ 2. Great Reservoir beneath the Haram—Great Sub- terranean Cistern of the Jewish Temple—Royal Pool 83 ,, 3. Minor Cisterns within the Haram . . . .91 „ 4. Amygdalon—Pool of Hezekiah . . . .92 „ 5. Ain Hammam esh-Shefa—The Fountain of the Bath of Healing 93 „ 6. Ain Sitte Myriam—Ain Urn ed-Durrage—The Fountain of the Virgin . . . . .97 A 2