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Travels into theh'Ev ht^T. 
Part 1. 
rily is. After they have pricked all along the faid lines, they vvafh the Arm, 
and obferve if there be any thing wanting, then they begin again, and fome- 
times do it three times over. When they have done, they wrap up your Arm 
veryftreight, and there grows a Crullupon it, which falling off three or four 
days after, the Marks remain Blew, and never wear out, becaufe the Blood 
mingling with that Tinfture of Ink ajid Oxes Gall, retains the mark under 
the Skin. 
CHAP. XLVIL 
Of ïphat if to he feen about Bethlehem, and of 
the Grott of the Virgin in Bethlehem. 
WEdnefâay the Four and twentieth of Jfril^ we parted from Bethlehem^ 
at five a Clock in the Morning, and went to fee ihe holy places that 
are about it. In the firft place, we faw on a little Hill on our right hand 
Boticella. Boticella, which is a Town wherein none but live ; and the Turks cannot 
live there, for they fay, that if a Turk offer to live in it, he dies within 
eight da^s. Then a League from we faw the Church of St. Cwj^f, 
where there is a great Iron-ring faftened to a Chain, through which thepeo- 
A Ring that pie of the Country, both Moors and Chriftians pafs, when they are troubled 
cures the with any Infirmity j and (asthey.fay) are immediately cured of it. We went 
' not thither, becaufe the day before, the Greeks having been there, met with 
fome Turks, who made every one of them pay fome Maidim, though it was 
not the cuftom to pay any thing ; and our Trucheman would by no means 
have us go thither, that' we might not accuftome them to a new Impofition. 
We left St. G'eor^e's on the right hand, and went to lee a Fountain, called in 
Fons Signa- holy Scripture Fans SignatHS , the Sealed Well , which is in a hole under 
tus. Ground j where being got down with fome trouble, and a lighted Candle, 
we faw on the right hand, three Springs one by another , the Water 
whereof is by an Aquedud that begins clofe by the Fountain Heads, conveyed 
to Jerufdem. Near to that place there is a pretty Caftle, built fome fifty or 
fixty Years fince, for taking the Cajfares of the Caravans of Hebron^ a 
The three little farther are the three Fiih-Ponds of Salomon ; they are three great Refèr- 
Fi(h-ponds of fervatories cut in the Rock, the one at the end of the other, the fécond being 
sdomen. ^ jjj-jjg jower than the firft, and the third than the fécond, and fo communi- 
cate the Water from one to another when they are full ; near to this place 
his Concubines lived. Continuing our Journey, we faw in a low Valley the 
HortusCon- Garden of the fame S<«/o;«o», qqWqA HormsConclHfns, becaufe it is on both lides 
clufus. (hut in by two high Hills, that ferve it for a Wall. Then returning back 
The Mount towards Bethlehem , we paffed the JVlount jin^uedy^ where the Cave is in 
Anguedy. which David cut off the Skirt of Sad"s> Garment : And about half a League 
from thence, we faw a Caftle upon a high Hill, called Bethulta^ which the 
Franks maintained forty Years , after they had loft the City of Jerufalem j 
then we came to the Well, where the Virgin defiring to drink, when (he fled 
from the Perfecution of Herod and the People of the Country refufing to 
draw Water for her, it fwelled of it felf up to the Wells mouth. Next we 
went to the place where the Shepherds were, when the Angel brought them 
the joyful TydingS, faying, J bring you^oodTydings^and Glory be to God on High j 
which with great Devotion we fung there, in an old ruinous Subterranean 
Church, built by St. Helen in that place. All the Inhabitants thereabouts, are 
to this day Shepherds, becaufe it is a fertile Country. We returned to Beth- 
lehem zbQVX ten a Clock in the Morning, and in the Evening went into the 
Grott, where (it is faid) the holy Virgin hid her felf with the Child Jefns^ 
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