The numerous caravans Which brought Israel back to its ruined acropolis must undoubtedly have reached Jerusalem by way of the north, over the Via dolorosa travelled sixty-five years before by the unhappy captives urged forward by the lash of Neb uzaradan. The joy and the grief of these pious emigrants When they beheld the desolated city of their dreams made doubtless one of those impres sions on the nation Which a people never forgets, more especially When there is no rhetorical narrator to spoil them. Nothing remained of. The ancient city but the foundations of its buildings, beside which lay great stones detached from the walls, the Temple, and the palaces.