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A Visit to the Holy Land

CHAPTER V
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The French shield, with the three lilies and the date 1402, occurs most frequently.

On the highest point in the city are built the church of St.John and the house of the governor.
All the exteriors seem in such good preservation, that one could almost fancy the knights had only departed to plant their victorious banner on the Holy Sepulchre.

They have in truth departed--departed to a better home.

Centuries have breathed upon their ashes, scattered in all the regions of the earth.

But their deeds have been chronicled both in heaven and among men, and the heroes still live in the admiration of posterity.
The churches, the house of the governor, and many other buildings, are not nearly so well preserved inside as a first glance would lead us to imagine.


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