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Interesting Discovery At Jerusalem.
blocked up , and one of which I saw b y descending , first , into tho rectangular well . " Tlie great jioint of interest in this discovery is this : It has now been thought , for some years , that the opinion of tlie invention of the arch b y the Eomans has been too hastily adopted . The usual period assigned to the arch is about B . C . 600 . We thought we
discovered a contradiction of this idea in Egypt , but the present case is far more satisfactory . The whole of the long passage of fifty feet , the chamber fifteen feet square , the two doors , and the passage under the pools in each case are true ' Eoman' arches ivith a perfect keystone . Now as it has never been seriously doubted that Solomon
built the pools ascribed to him , and to which he probably refers in Ecclesiastes ii . 6 , tbe arch must , of course , have been well known about or before the time of the building ofthe first temple , B . C . 1012 . The ' sealed fountain' which is near , has the same arch in several places ; but this might have been Eoman . But here the arched ways pass probably the whole distance under the pools , and are , therefore , at least coeval with themor were rather built before themin order
, , to convey the water down the valley ' to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees . ' " What I saw convinced me , at least , that the perfect key-stone Eoman arch was in familiar use in the time of Solomon , or one thousand years before the Christian era . " ( Signed ) JAMES COOK Eicn _ vro _ s i > .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BEO . GEOEGE THOMAS . Died , at Woodbridge , on the 27 th of May , George Thomas , Esq ., Deputy Provincial Grand Master for the County of Suffolk . The deceased Brother was also W . M . of the Doric Lodge , No . 96 , and a member of the E . A . Chapter . He was appointed to the Deputyship by the late Prov . G . M . the Eight . Hon . Lord Eendlesham , and during his illness assumed the command of the Province , and held several Provincial Grand Lodges . The funeral took place on the 7 th inst . and as a mark of respect shop in the town was closedand the
; , every , windows of private houses also bore the symbol of death ; the funeral corter / e was preceded by the members of his own Lodge , in silk hat-bands and white gloves ; by the Odd Fellows , of which bod y he was an honorary member ; and by the members of the Mechanics' Institute , of which he was president . It is computed tbat upwards of 3000 persons attended the mournful cavalcade . He was buried
in his family vault at Kesgrave , near Ipswich . In bidding adieu to a brother who so fully carried out the princi ples of Freemasonry in his life , we may take occasion to say , that Bro . Thomas was a man of sterling worth ;—of religious , honourable , fearless , unpretending , good-humoured exactitude in his obligations ; of invariable and inflexible honesty of speech and dealing , both to high and low ; with more than usual simplicity , accrediting other men with the good he recognised in himself ; a diligent and humane magfstrate , of such large charity ( though with diminished means ) , that scarcely a needy man in the place had not been either directly or indirectly assisted by him . Sir Thomas Browne might almost supply him with an epitaph , that the Gtesars of the world may now be coveting : — "Happy are they whom privacy makes innocent ;
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Interesting Discovery At Jerusalem.
blocked up , and one of which I saw b y descending , first , into tho rectangular well . " Tlie great jioint of interest in this discovery is this : It has now been thought , for some years , that the opinion of tlie invention of the arch b y the Eomans has been too hastily adopted . The usual period assigned to the arch is about B . C . 600 . We thought we
discovered a contradiction of this idea in Egypt , but the present case is far more satisfactory . The whole of the long passage of fifty feet , the chamber fifteen feet square , the two doors , and the passage under the pools in each case are true ' Eoman' arches ivith a perfect keystone . Now as it has never been seriously doubted that Solomon
built the pools ascribed to him , and to which he probably refers in Ecclesiastes ii . 6 , tbe arch must , of course , have been well known about or before the time of the building ofthe first temple , B . C . 1012 . The ' sealed fountain' which is near , has the same arch in several places ; but this might have been Eoman . But here the arched ways pass probably the whole distance under the pools , and are , therefore , at least coeval with themor were rather built before themin order
, , to convey the water down the valley ' to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees . ' " What I saw convinced me , at least , that the perfect key-stone Eoman arch was in familiar use in the time of Solomon , or one thousand years before the Christian era . " ( Signed ) JAMES COOK Eicn _ vro _ s i > .
Obituary.
Obituary .
BEO . GEOEGE THOMAS . Died , at Woodbridge , on the 27 th of May , George Thomas , Esq ., Deputy Provincial Grand Master for the County of Suffolk . The deceased Brother was also W . M . of the Doric Lodge , No . 96 , and a member of the E . A . Chapter . He was appointed to the Deputyship by the late Prov . G . M . the Eight . Hon . Lord Eendlesham , and during his illness assumed the command of the Province , and held several Provincial Grand Lodges . The funeral took place on the 7 th inst . and as a mark of respect shop in the town was closedand the
; , every , windows of private houses also bore the symbol of death ; the funeral corter / e was preceded by the members of his own Lodge , in silk hat-bands and white gloves ; by the Odd Fellows , of which bod y he was an honorary member ; and by the members of the Mechanics' Institute , of which he was president . It is computed tbat upwards of 3000 persons attended the mournful cavalcade . He was buried
in his family vault at Kesgrave , near Ipswich . In bidding adieu to a brother who so fully carried out the princi ples of Freemasonry in his life , we may take occasion to say , that Bro . Thomas was a man of sterling worth ;—of religious , honourable , fearless , unpretending , good-humoured exactitude in his obligations ; of invariable and inflexible honesty of speech and dealing , both to high and low ; with more than usual simplicity , accrediting other men with the good he recognised in himself ; a diligent and humane magfstrate , of such large charity ( though with diminished means ) , that scarcely a needy man in the place had not been either directly or indirectly assisted by him . Sir Thomas Browne might almost supply him with an epitaph , that the Gtesars of the world may now be coveting : — "Happy are they whom privacy makes innocent ;