Second Aqueduct to the Pool of Siloam

DURI~Othe stay here of Professor Hayter Lew~, he suggested that I should, at a proper time and opportunity, make some excavations at Siloah on purpose to find traces of the old or fil1~twater conduit from the Virgin's }"ountaill, as I suggested in a former paper, published in Quarterly Statement, .A pril, 1886, page 88.This work I completed h\.Mtmonth, and it is now my privilege to report upon it.I have prepared the accorupanying drawings, based on tllP printed plan he gave me, and on which he marked in red the exact sites where the excavations should be made.The first shaft A was made in the very line, but about 40 feet south of the selected point, as the ground was there about 6 feet lower and waste, whereas at the selected spot cauliflower were planted, and the proprietor was not willing to allow excavations.Of course there was no great difference in regard of the expected resul t.As the surface of the ground, where the shaft was made, is marked on the Ordnance ~Iap, 2,099, and the bottom of Virgin's Well 2,087 feet, I hoped at the depth of about 12 to 15 feet to find the conduit.We found the following :-At 9 feet deep, met 011 the east side a wall which enabled us to go down deep, without wooden frames; but the hewn stones (only two layers) soon ended, and beneath them were unhewn rubble stones.I wished to know the depth at which the rock lies, and to ascertain its slope, 80 as to find the real valley.At 14 feet deep the earth ended and a layer of small stones came and after it a thick layer of sand, with many small pieces of pottery, as if it had once been the watercourse of the valley...At about 20 feet, or 2,079 above the sea, when this laJer ended, there was no rock, but stOllt-S and

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