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Excerpt from Les Derniers Jours de Jérusalem Dans un livre récemment publié en Angleterre par M. Tristram, très - aimable et très - galant homme que j'ai eu l'honneur et le plaisir de rencontrer à mon dé part de Jérusalem, je trouve la phrase suivante We felt less disposed to yield credence to M. De Saulcy when he added that he has successfully traced the line of the trench which Titus cast up round the city. As this trench was of earth, and, according to Josephus, was completed in three days, it requires large faith in anti qùarian acumen to credit this discovery 1. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.