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land of new and strange and strong intelligent people and a country whose fertility was beyond any thing I had ever seen. The Pyramids o& Sphinx did not impress me; but the the panorama of green and desert off beyond of strange people and strange garbs, and strange animals. The bazars and shops and life and activity was a source of constant interest I would like to go back and I will if I don't die too soon. Then I went to Palestine, the most Ungodly place I ever saw, desert and desolation. It never was any thing & never will be any thing. I saw Jerusalem, The grotto in Bethlehem where Jesus was born in a church built in the twelfth century I saw the slab he was laid out on after his crucifixion the place of the crucifixion; the rock that was cleft in two by the lightning or something and it is cracked clear through so I couldn't ? it. I saw the tomb of Rachel and the tomb of Samson and a lot of other things and I came away and something told me that I should never see the place again, but you know Mary it never makes any difference whether a story is reasonable