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 fatigue, despondency, dread and misery, their strength failed them, and they were then scattered several ways into sinks and gutters.

The soldiers were now broken loose all over the town, up and down in the streets, with their swords drawn, killing all that fell in their way without distinction: and burning entire houses, and whatever was in them, in one common flame In several places, where they entered to search for pillage, they found whole families dead, and houses crammed with hunger starved carcases: So that upon the horror of so hideous a spectacle, they came out again empty handed; but the compassion they had for the dead, made them not one jot tenderer to the living; for they stabbed every man they met till the narrow passages and alleys were choaked up with carcases. so that the channels of the city ran blood, as if it had been to quench the fire. In the evening, they gave over killing and at night they fell afresh to burning.

The eighth of the month Gorpieus put an end to the conflagration of Jerusalem. (A. D. 70.) and if all the blessings it ever enjoyed from the foundation of it, had been but comparable in proportion to the calamities it suffered in this siege, that city has been undoubtedly the envy of the world. But the greatest plague of all came out of its own bowels; in that infernal race of vipers that it brought forth to eat out of the belly of the mother.

While Titus was now taking a view of the ruins of this glorious city ; the works, the fortifications, and especially the turrets, which the tyrants had so sottishly abandoned; while Cæsar I say, was entertaining himself in the contemplation of the height, dimensions, and situation of these towers, the design. workmanship, and curiosity of the fabric with the wonderful contrivance of the whole: He let fall this expression, Well says he of God had not fought for us,