in Syria, Phoenice &c. ^7^ 



Antidotes likewife againft feveral Diftempers. The Olives, ^^"'/5'''^ 

 the Lapides Judaici ' of the Shops, have been always an ap-'<"'i &c. 

 proved Medicine againft the Stone and Gravel : but little can 

 be faid in Favour of their Melons and Peaches, which are only 

 fo many different Sizes of round hollow Flint Stones, beauti- 

 fied in the Infide with fuch fparry and ftalagniitical Knobbs as 

 are made to pafs for the like Number of Seeds and Kernels. 

 The little round Calculi, commonly called the Virgins Teas ; 

 the chalky Stone of the Grotto near Bethlehem, c^Wta. her Milk', 

 the Waters of Jordan and Siloam ; the Oyl of Zacco7ie ; the 

 Rofes of Jericho ; Beads made of the Olive Stones of Gethfe- 

 mane\ with various Curiofities of the like Nature, are the Pre- 

 fents which Pilgrims ufually receive in Return for their Charity. 

 In calm Weather, feveral Fountains of excellent Water difco- 

 ver themfelves, upon the Sea Shore, hoiov^ Be llmont. Th^y Ue Fo:,vta}7,f 

 are fuppofed to have their Sources at a League's Diftance^^/^^Bei.''-' 

 to the Eaft ward, where there is a large Grotto, which is become '"'""■ 

 very remarkable upon Account of a plentiful Stream of Water, 

 that burfts out at once , and lofeth itfelf immediately under 

 the fame Cave. This Place, which is near half a Mile long, 

 and fometimes fifty, fometimes a hundredYards broad, is vault- 

 ed, by Nature, in fo regular a Manner, that Art alone may 

 feem to have been concerned in the Performance. The Ras el 

 Ayn near Tyre, the Sources of the Κιβοοη, and the fealed Foun- 

 tain of Solomon , are of the fame guihing Quality with the 

 Fountains of this Grotto. To thefe we may add The (Nahar el τ,,ο River of 

 Farah) River of the Moufe, which hath it's Sources about a '• ' '^^'"^'• 

 League to the N. E. of Jerufalem. The Reafon of the Name 

 may arife from hence, that no fooner doth the Stream begin 

 to run, than it is immediately loft under Ground, then rifeth 

 again, and in this Manner purfueth it's Courfe, all the Way, 

 into the Valley of Jericho. Yet provided all thefe Fountains 

 and Rivulets, which I have juft now mentioned, together with 

 the Kardanah, the Kijhon, the Brook of Sichem, and other 

 lefter ones diiperfed all over the Holy Land, ftiould be united 

 together, they would not form a Stream in any degree equal 

 to the Jordan, which, excepting the Nile, is by far the moft 



I One of them will ufually fene for two Dofes, corroding it firft in ib much Lemon Juice 

 as will juft cover it ; and afterwards drinking of it up. Profpcr /Hlplnus gives us another 

 Method. Hift. /Egj/pf. Nat. l.j cap. 6. iEgyptii lapide fudaico, ex cote cum aqti.i β'Λαήύα ex 

 Ononidis radicum corticibus detrito, utttntur ad calculos in ren'ibus & in veficx comminuendos, atque 

 ad urinam movendam. Β b b b b COn- 



