470 st. ;zan d'acre. [1848. 



by those who are married, or by the unmarried of the highest 

 rank, and when once assumed is never laid aside. It is a 

 tube, made of tin. or plated silver, or gilt, according to the 

 means of the wearer, about eighteen inches long, and resem- 

 bling a horn. At the base it is from three to four inches in 

 diameter, and tapers gradually to the point where it is about 

 en inch across. It is fastened to the head by means of a 

 spring, balanced by three heavy tassels hanging down on the 

 opposite sid«, and projects either from the centre of the fore- 

 head or from one side, at an angle of forty-five degrees, like 

 the horn of a unicorn. From the tip, depends a white 

 transparent veil, that floats down to the breast, and serves 

 to conceal the features when desired. 



In the afternoon of the 28th of March, the Supply once 

 more got under sail, and, continuing her southerly course, 

 past the memorable cities of Sidon and Tyre, anchored before 

 the walled village of Haifa, under Mount Carmel. This 

 steep promontory forms the south-western extremity of the 

 bay of Acre, and is from fifteen to eighteen hundred feet 

 above the level of the sea. Far to the east stretches the 

 plain of Jezrael, the ancient Megiddo, so often dyed with the 

 blood of the warring hosts who have here contended for 

 the victory, while to the south lies the lovely valley of 

 Sharon, inclosed between the hills of Samaria and Galilee, 

 and adorned with the beautiful flowers of the cistus which 

 have so often elicited the admiration of the traveller and the 

 encomiums of the poet. On the opposite side of the bay, at 

 a distance of sixteen miles, is St. Jean d'Acre, the Ptolemais 

 of the Greek, and the Akka of the Saracen ;* before whose 

 walls the Lion-Hearted Richard and his gallant knights per- 

 formed so many deeds of high emprise, and in later years the 



* Upon the site of St. Jean d'Acre stood the ancient Hebrew, or Phoenician 

 city, culled Accho. From this the name of Akka was derived by the Saracens, 

 and not from the church of St Jean d'Acre. as Lieutenant Lynch erroneously 

 supposes (Narrative p 122 ) St. Jean d'Acre the modern name of the town, 

 was, of course, derived from the magnificent cathedral erected bv the knights lios- 

 pitallers of St. John. 



