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looking men. They present the appearance of every nation of Europe. 

 The German Jewish are fair and hlue-eyed ; the Spaniards, olive and 

 dark ; the Moriscoes from Barbary, swarthy and burnt ; the Polish 

 different from all. All speak the languages of the countries to which they 

 belong; they have no national feature or appearance like the English 

 Jews. Many of the women were beautiful, and they alone, of all the 

 ■women I have seen in the East, enjoyed the same consideration with 

 the women of Europe, coming out to receive strangers, and joining 

 in conversation with their husbands. 



From Jerusalem, we went to Naploos, the ancient Samaria, through 

 a very mountainous tract, full of terraced vineyards, and stood by the 

 well where our Saviour talked with the woman of Samaria, between 

 Mount Ebal a;,d Gerizim ; thence through the most lovely green val- 

 leys, each one with its little clear rivulet, to Sebaste, the capital 

 of Herod, where John the Baptist was beheaded ; and in two days 

 more, across the plain of Esdraelon, watered by the brook Kishon, 

 " that ancient river," where Deborah defeated Sisera, to Nazareth. 

 There is nothing remarkable there, except the associations connected 

 with a place where our Saviour resided for 30 years of his life, and 

 over every part of which he must have trod. It is a prettv town 

 among green hills. Here my companion fell sick, and we found, that 

 though vaccinated, he had got the sn all- pox, probably from the pilgrims 

 in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. His attack being slight, I left 

 him in the convent, and proceeded a 12 -days' trip into the Haouran 

 with two other travellers, the Honorable Mr. Curzon and Sir GeoRGE 

 Palmer. We passed Mount Tabor, Endor, Nain, and crossed the 

 Jordan at Bethsan, from which we had a most beautiful march to Adje- 

 lun, and thence to Jorash, through a finely wooded hilly country 

 that put me much in mind of some of the finest country about Kit- 

 hur, or a little more to the west of the Belgaum road, where the true 

 forest begins : the trees were fine oaks and ilices, and game abounded. 

 All this is comprehended under the general name of Gilead, more 

 particularly it was the land of Og king of Bashan, still as famous for 

 fine cattle as formerly. The castle of Adjeloon (see Joshua's miracle 

 of the sun and moon standing still), is a grand object on the top of one 

 of the highest hills, towering over all the wooded eminences around. 

 The ruins of Jorash are very extensive and magnificent ; a street of 

 ruined Corinthian and Doric columns, nearly two miles long, two 

 theatres, two temples, one with a grand portico in good preserva- 

 tion, and many other large ruins, attest its former magnificence. They 

 were stately fellows, these Roman Governors. Here we found at their 

 different towns of Bethsan (Scythopolis), Gerash, Ammon, Oomkais 



