A dictionary of the Bible.. . double or Huldah gate, and another oldgate adjoining it, walled up. The city has no springs, but it is sup-plied with water by cisterns filled fromthe rain-falls on the roofs of the houses,by pools, of which there are six or morein and about the city, and by conduitsand wells or springs outside the town.The chief pools have been already no-ticed. They may be here grouped to-gether: The Birket-Mamilla, Birket-Sultan, Pool of Siloam, Fountain or Poolof the Virgin, Birket-Israel, and thePool of Hezekiah. The Birket-Ma-milla, says Crosby, is supposed to bethe upperpoo
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A dictionary of the Bible.. . double or Huldah gate, and another oldgate adjoining it, walled up. The city has no springs, but it is sup-plied with water by cisterns filled fromthe rain-falls on the roofs of the houses, by pools, of which there are six or morein and about the city, and by conduitsand wells or springs outside the town.The chief pools have been already no-ticed. They may be here grouped to-gether: The Birket-Mamilla, Birket-Sultan, Pool of Siloam, Fountain or Poolof the Virgin, Birket-Israel, and thePool of Hezekiah. The Birket-Ma-milla, says Crosby, is supposed to bethe upperpool, Isa. 7 : 3 ; 2 Kgs. 18 : 17. Itlies 2000 feet west of the Jaffa-gate. TheBirket-Sultan is a section of the greatwestern valley dammed up for more than500 feet. The Pool of Siloam, Neh. 3:15; John 9: 7, is in the mouth of the449 jeb JEH Tyropoeon, at its junction with the Hin-nom and the Kedron valleys. It wasprobably used to irrigate the kings gar-den. It is connected, by a long, rude, and crooked subterranean passage, with. Pool of Hezekiah, inside the Jaffa-gate. (Aftera Photograph by Bonfils.) the Fountain of the Virgin, on the otherside of Ophel, from which the waterflows softly. . The Fountain ofthe Virgin is a pool on the easternside of the Ophel rook, to which is a de-scent of 28 steps. The water comes intoit from the direction of the temple, buthas never been traced. It has a periodicand sudden rise of a foot in height, theperiods varying from two to three timesa day to once in two or three days. Thisperiodic troubling of the water seems tomark the Fountain of the Virgin as thePool of Bethesda, unless we may supposethat a pool farther up on the temple-mountformerly received this intermittent flow.The requirements of the sheep-gate (seeabove) seem to put Bethesda farthernorth. The Birket-Israel, just insideSt. Stephens gate and north of the Ha-ram (supposed by Robinson to be thetrench of Antonia), is the damming upof the valley that runs east of Bezethain a south-easte