The cats could have jumped double the distance without extraordinary exertion.

I mention these things to give an idea of how narrow the streets are.
Since a cat can jump across them without the least inconvenience, it is hardly necessary to state that such streets are too narrow for carriages.
These vehicles cannot navigate the Holy City.
The population of Jerusalem is composed of Moslems, Jews, Greeks, Latins, Armenians, Syrians, Copts, Abyssinians, Greek Catholics, and a handful of Protestants.

One hundred of the latter sect are all that dwell now in this birthplace of Christianity.

The nice shades of nationality comprised in the above list, and the languages spoken by them, are altogether too numerous to mention.

It seems to me that all the races and colors and tongues of the earth must be represented among the fourteen thousand souls that dwell in Jerusalem.