King Solomon kept his horses and some of his stores. The place
is abont two acres in extent, and bears every mark of great
age. There are in its walls some of the huge stones placed
there in the time of Solomon, and remains of the mangers and
the holes in which the halters were tied may also be seen.
On tlie southwest corner of the temple enclosure, and out-
side the walls but inside the city walls, is the wailing place of
the Jews. At this point the wall is perhaps thirty feet in
height, and some of the lower rows of stones are said to be of
the original building. If so, they were probably the top rows,
for the wall extends seventy feet and more below the present
surface of the street. Some of the abject houses in wdrich
the Jews live in this wretched region are thirty or forty feet
below the street, showing to some extent how the city has
been filled up with ruins.
