A fast walker could go outside the walls of Jerusalem and walk entirely around the city in an hour.

I do not know how else to make one understand how small it is.

The appearance of the city is peculiar.

It is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads.

Every house has from one to half a dozen of these white plastered domes of stone, broad and low, sitting in the centre of, or in a cluster upon, the flat roof.