A few traces of the ruins of Caiaphas' house are yet visible.
The "Grotto of Jeremiah" lies beyond the "Gate of Damascus," in front of which we found, near a cistern, an elaborately-sculptured sarcophagus, which is used as a water-trough.

This grotto is larger than any I have yet mentioned.

At the entrance stands a great stone, called Jeremiah's bed, because the prophet is said generally to have slept upon it.

Two miles farther on we come to the graves of the judges and the kings.

We descend an open pit, three or four fathoms deep, forming the courtyard.