Uzziah, otherwise Azariah, was buried on Mount Zion, close to the other kings of Judah, 2 Kings xv. 7.  Cf.  P.E.  F., Jerusalem, as to identification of sites.  Sir Charles Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, gives excellent illustrations of the holy places, and his work might be consulted with advantage.]

[Footnote 83:  Pillars of salt are to be met with elsewhere, for instance at Hammam Meskutim in Algeria.  They are caused by spouts of water, in which so great a quantity of salt is contained as at times to stop up the aperture of the spring.  The latter, however, is again unsealed through cattle licking off the salt near the aperture, and the same process of filling up and unstopping goes on continually.  Cf.  Talmud Berachot, 54 a.]

     [Footnote 84:  See Baedeker’s Palestine and Syria, pp. 233,
     236; also Schwartz, Palestine, 1852, p. 230 and Dr.
     Robinson’s Palestine, I, p. 516.]

     [Footnote 85:  Edrisi in 1154 writes:  “The tomb is covered by
     twelve stones, and above it is a dome vaulted over with
     stones.”]

[Footnote 86:  Compare R. Pethachia’s account of his visit (Travels of Rabbi Petachia:  translated by Dr. A. Benisch; London, Truebner & Co., 1856, p. 63).  See papers by Professors Goldziher and Guthe (Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palaestina-Vereins, XVII, pp. 115 and 238) for an account of the opening of the tombs at Hebron in 1119, as given in a presumably contemporaneous MS. found by Count Riant.  Fifteen earthenware vessels filled with bones, perhaps those referred to by Benjamin, were found.  It is doubtful whether the actual tombs of the Patriarchs were disturbed, but it is stated that the Abbot of St. Gallen paid in 1180 ten marks of gold (equal to about L5,240 sterling) for relics taken from the altar of the church at Hebron.  The MS. of Count Riant further mentions that before the occupation of Hebron by the Arabs, the Greeks had blocked up and concealed the entrance to the caves.  The Jews subsequently disclosed the place of the entrance to the Moslems, receiving as recompense permission to build a synagogue close by.  This was no doubt the Jewish place of worship referred to by Benjamin.  Shortly after Benjamin’s visit in 1167 the Crusaders established a bishopric and erected a church in the southern part of the Haram.  See also Conder’s account of the visit of His Majesty the King, when Prince of Wales, to the Haram at Hebron. (Palestine Exploration Fund’s Quarterly Statement, 1882.)]

[Footnote 87:  Beit Jibrin was fortified by King Fulk in 1134.  See Baedeker’s Palestine and Syria, p. 309; Rapoport’s Erech Milin, p. 54; also a preliminary notice on the Necropolis of Maresha in P.E.F.Q.S., Oct., 1902, p. 393.  The text has [Hebrew:], but it should be [Hebrew:].  Inscriptions on tombs near Beit Jibrin show that the town, to