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Motorable roads in 1918. = = Special roads for army vehicles. lOOOmetres — Ancient Roman aqueduct used spasmodically from Roman to Ottoman times, but defunct by 1820. -+i-4- The 1892 railway to the coast, relaid and widened by the British in 1918. •""Turkish pipe-line, providing 40,000 gallons of water a day in 1914. > ' ' Narrow gauge railway, built by the British for taking military supplies to Bira, the front-line during 1918, twelve miles north of Jerusalem. " • W a t e r pipe-lines laid by the British in I9I8 from Solomon's Pools, with the main distribution lines from the Romema Reservoir, providing 280,000 gallons of water a day.
Plate 34 Plate 35 =* -^=- Robinson's arch, at the western wall of the Temple Mount. Behind it, the Moghrabi Quarterto the left. Captain Warren's excavations. From a print from the Survey of Western Palestine published in 1884. Excavations at Wilson's A r c h , underneath the Temple Mount. A print f r o m the Survey Western Palestine. 44 of ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS 1863-1914 ® Some of the principal archaeological sites excavated between I863 and I9I4, with the date of excavation, and name of the archaeologist in charge.
REYNOLDS-BALL 'GUIDE T O JERUSALEM I90I Sire : I have the honour to submit the following proposal to your Imperial Majesty's wisdom.... We could create a Jewish University in Your Imperial Majesty's Empire, for example in Jerusalem. The Ottoman students would no longer need to go abroad. They would stay in the country and obtain the most advanced scientific training without ceasing to be under • the laws of their country. The Jewish University should bring together all the scholarly qualities of the best universities, technical schools, and schools of agriculture.