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Travels into ri?^ L e v a n t. Part 1. 
you muft ilep over a great many people, Men, Women and Children, lying snd 
tumbling confufedly in the Church ; befides, all thefe People have their Chil- 
dren with them, who do their needs in the Church juft where they are j for 
though there be a Court with Neceflary-houfes, yet that fignifies but little for 
fo many, infomuch that all thefe things together do much incoremcde and 
The way of diftrsél you. When thefe Chrillians would Ring to Office, they have pieces 
Ringing to of Wood about a fathom long, fomewhat crooked, a hand broad, and two 
the office in fingers thick, which they hang by a Rope in the middle ; upon this Board they 
%t,se]^ulchr€s. j^nock with two pieces of Iron, which gives a found fomething like to that of 
our Bells, and makes an horrid din, efpecially when feveral ring at the fame 
time : Others a^ain have a kind of Drums and other inflruments, all which 
together make mad Mufick- 
CHAP. XL. 
Of the Bu^ing-flaces of the Kings ^ and of 
the Grott of Jeremiah. 
ON Falm-Siwday after Dinner, we went out of the City by the Gate of 
DamafcHs, to go fee the Burying- Places of the ancient Kings of Jerufalemy 
•which is a rare thing; You enter firft into a great Court cut out and made 
even in the Rock, which ferves for Walls to it, and on the left hand there is a 
Gallery cut alfo out of the Rock, with feveral Pillars, all very much beautified 
Viiih. many Figures engrav'd upon the ftone ; at one end of this Gallery there is 
a little open place, by which you muft creep upon your belly into a large fquare 
Room, cut alfo out of the Rock, in v»^hich there are other Rooms, and feveral 
fair Tombs cut in the Rock. This is a very ftately and magnificent Place, and 
many think that the Doors (wbich are very thick, and of the fame ftone ) have 
been cut with their Hinges and Pivots in the fame place where they are, and by 
much labour divided from the reft of the Rock j but that is not fo, as may be 
"eafily known, if one will but take the pains to fcrape a little below, and put 
afide the duft ; for then he'll fee the joyning of the ftones that have been put 
there ; after that, the Doors have been placed with their Pivots in the holes. 
Being come out of this fair Palsce of the Dead, we went to the Cave where the 
Prophet Jeremiah compoled his Lamentations, which is near to that place of the 
Sepulchres. It is a large very light Grott made in the Rock, having a Pillar in 
the middle that fupports the Roof of it. 
CHAP. XLI. 
Of the River of Jordan^ of the Dead-Sea ^ and 
of the Mount of the Forty Days Fafi. 
Monday the fifteenth of ^^pn/, which to the Greeks and Latins was Holy Mon- 
dAyjwe prepared to go to the River of Jordan ; and therefore the Monks 
having made neceflary Provifions for the Journey, we took Horfe at the Door of 
the Church of the Sepulchre of the Bleffed Virgin, from whence we parted at 
eight a clock in the morning to go to that River, whither the Chriftians go 
not, but cn the G?:eeks Holy Monday, becaufe then the Ballia gives a Guard of 
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