2. Among the works of Hezekiah he is said to have stopped the ** upper watercourse of Gihon, " and brought it down straight to the W. side of the city of David (2 Chron. xxxii, 80). The direction of this water- course of course depends on the site of Gihon. Dr. Robinson identifies this with the large pool called Birket ee-JIfamilla at the head of the valley of Hinnom, on the S.W. side of Jerusalem, and considers the late- ly-discovered subterranean conduit within the city to be a branch ftrom Hezekiah's watercourse {Researchet, new ed. iii, 248-4 ; i, 827 ; Gesenius, Thet, J7e5. p. 616, 1895). Mr. Williams, on the other hand, places Gihon on the N. side, not fiur fh>m the tombs of the kings, and supposes the watercourse to have brought water in a S. direction to the temple, whence it fiowed ulti- mately into the Pool of Siloam, or Lower Pool. One argument which recommends this view is found in the account of the interview between the emissaries of Sennacherib and the officers of Hezekiah, which took place ** by the conduit of the upper pool, in the high- way of the fuller's field" (2 Kings xviii, 17), whose site seems to be indicated by the " fuller's monument" mentioned by Josephus as at the N.E. side of the city, and by the once well-known site called the Camp of the Assyrians (Josephus, War, v, 4, 2; 7, 8'; 12, 2). (See Maundrell, p. 456 sq., Bohn's ed. ; Richardson,
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Travels, ii, 879 ; Berthean, D. BUcJL d. Konige, p. 409 ; Schultz, Jenualem, p. 40.)— Smith. See Gihon.
Cone, Spencer H., D.D., an eminent Baptist minister, was born in Princeton, N. J., April 80, 1785. His early education was careftilly condocted, and at twelve years of age he entered Princeton College. Two years after, through his fiither's failure in busi- ness, he was compelled to leave college, and devoted himself to teaching, first in Princeton, then in Bur- lington, and finally (under Dr. Abercrombie) in Phil- adelphia. Here he began to study law ; but his fine powers of elocution led him in 1806 to become an act- or. He " trod the boards'* with distinction for eight years, and then was suddenly converted, and was bap- tized by immersion Feb. 4, 1814. Obtaining a gov- ernment clerkship in Washhigton, he removed thither, and began to preach within a year after his baptism. In 1815-16 he was chaplain to Congress, and immedi- ately became pastor of a Baptist church at Alexandria, D. C. In 1828 he accepted a call from the Oliver Street Baptist Church, New York, where he remained until 1841, when he became pastor of the First Baptist Church, which buUt a new edifice in Broome Street In this charge he remained until his death, Aug. 28, 1855. Dr. Cone's career as a preacher was very bril- liant. He spoke with great ease, with a rich, sono^ ous voice, and very appropriate and expressive geK tures. In doctrine he was a Calvinlst, and a strenu- ous advocate of Baptist views, but yet courteous and charitable to all Christians. His preaching and pas- toral labor exhausted but a small part of his activities. He took a deep interest in missions, was a memlter of the Baptist Board, and was president of the Conven- tion tiom. 1882 to 1841. He did his utmost to avert the disruption of the Convention in 1845 through the slavery disputes. He was also an officer of the Bap- tist Home Missionary Society fh>m its beginning in 1832 to 1855. For many years he was active in the service of the American Bible Society, but on the for- mation of the Baptist (American and Foreign) Bible Society in ^886, which he aided greatly in organizing, he was made Its president. On the reftisal of this so- ciety to embark in the enterprise of " Bible Bevision," so called, he seceded ftom it in order to form the American Bible Union, one of the chief objects of which was to substitute *' immerse" for '* baptize" in the versions of Scripture. — Sprague, Annais, vi, 656.
Coney (Ifi^t thaphan'; Sept. xocpoypvXXtoc), an animal joined in Lev. xi, 5, and Deut xiv, 7, with the hare, and described as chewing the cud ; in Psa. civ, 18, it is spoken of as an inhabitant of the mountains and rocks, and in Prov. xxx, 26, it is represented as a feeble, but gregarious and cunning animaL These descriptions some think agree best with the different species of the jerboa, the Mutjacuba of Linnans. It is on the authority of Rabbinical writers that the word has by our translators been rendered " coney," or rob- bk, which cannot be sustained, as the rabbit is not an Asiatic animal, and does not seek a rocky habitation, which is the leading characteristic by which the tha- phan is distinguished. ** The anunal is, in truth, as Bruce justiy indicated, the same as the AMoko of Abyssinia, or Daman of Syria, the WaUer of the Ar- abs, and in scientific zoology is one of the small genus Hyrax, distinguished by the specific name of Syrian (Syriacu*), This aninud has been described by trav- ellers as a ruminant, but this is an error. The num- ber, shape, and structure of the teeth are totally dif- ferent (as is true also of the hare) ; nor is the jaw- bone articulated so as to admit Areely of a similar ac- tion ; finally, the internal structure, as well as the whole osteology, represents that of a rhinoceros in min- iature, and has no appearance of the complicated four- fold stomachs of ruminants ; therefore the hyrax is neither a rodent like hares and rabbits, nor a rumi- nant, but is anomalous, and most nearly allied to the