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TRAVELS 
IN 
AFRICA, 
CHAP. XXIII. 
GALILEE — ACCA. 
Improvements by yez%ar — Trade — Taxes — White promontory ^ and 
river Leontes — Tyre — Seide — Earthquake — Kefrawan — Syrian 
wines — Beirut — Anchorage — Provijtons — River Adonis — An- 
tura — Harrife — Tripoli — Ladakia — Journey to Aleppo or 
Haleb. 
G ALILEE is here divided from Samaria by a ridge of hills. 
Six hours were employed in pafling from Nazareth to Acre, by 
the Arabs more properly termed Acca. At a village on the 
route obferved a farcophage, now ufed for watering cattle, and 
fome fcattered fragments of columns. But few villages appear 
between Nazareth and Acre, though the land be fertile. 
Acre is fortified with a wall of very moderate ftrength, 
having only one gate. It is a pretty large town, but many of 
the houfes are empty : yet the population may be eftimated be- 
tween fifteen and twenty thoufand. There remains part of a 
double fofle, which extended round the town, but is daily dila- 
pidated for modern eredions. There is no caftle nor other re- 
lique of antiquity. 
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