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nine cities stood on the very shores of the lake. A 

 great part of our Lord's life was spent near it. Here 

 he taught the people out of Peter's ship, and wondrously 

 filled the nets, so that they brake; walked on the waves, 

 rebuked the winds, and calmed the sea. From the castle 

 Saphet a vast panorama, embracing a thousand points 

 of historic and sacred interest, is presented to the eye. 

 Saphet is truly a high tower. Here are beveled stones, 

 as heavy and as ancient in appearance as any ruins in 

 the country, and they prove that this has been a place 

 of importance from a remote age. 



BATHS A$TD CITY OF TIBERIAS. The sea of Galilee is 

 also called the sea of Tiberias, from the celebrated city 

 of that name. About a mile south from the original 

 site of the city, along the shores, are the celebrated 

 warm baths, which the Roman naturalists reckoned as 

 among the greatest known curiosities of the world. The 

 water of these springs has a sulphurous and most dis- 

 agreeable smell, and is so nauseous that it cannot be 

 drank, and is not used internally. The baths, however, 

 have a great medicinal reputation. There is but one com- 

 mon bathing cistern, where the water is hot enough to 

 cook an egg from 130 to 140 Fahrenheit yet it is 

 always crowded with the lame, the halt, the withered, 

 and the leprous. 



NAZARETH. Nazareth is situated among the hills 

 which constitute the south ridges of Lebanon, just be- 

 fore they sink into the Plain of EsdrsBlon. It derives 

 its celebrity from its connection with the history of 

 Christ. The "Fountain of the Virgin 'Ms situated at 

 the northeastern extremity of the town. The brow of the 

 hill is still called the Mount of the Precipitation (Luke 

 14: 29), and is half a league southward of Nazareth. 



