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^ ozL Travels into thehEv ant. Part L 
The place manner. It is covered with a Dome. There is a great hole under the high 
where the Altar, where the Olive-Tree grew, that was cut down to make the Crofsof 
SlTc'ut down ^^^^ When we had feen all thefe things, we took our way ftreight 
ofwhich^he to Jerufalem^ where we arrived about four a clock in the Afternoon. Wt en- 
Cofs of our tered by the Caftle-Gate, called alfo the Gate of Bethlehem. This Gate is called 
Lord was the Caftle-Gate, becaufe there is a good Caftle in that place, 
made. 
C H A P. XLÎX. 
Of Bethany, Bethphage, Mount Sion, the Houfes 
of Caiaphas and Annas. 
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\Rtday the twenty ilxth of Jpril, we went out by the Gate.of Bethkhem, 
about feven a Clock in the Morning, and faw firfl; on our right hand at 
The Fifh- ^he foot of Mount 5/o^/, the two Filh-ponds of Bathjiubah, where fhe bathed her 
pondsof £it^ felf ; and very near over againft it, (but about fifty paces higher upon the fame 
jl:ebab. Mount Siori) is the Palace of David, from whence he faw, and fell in Love v^fith 
Mount Sion. ^içr ; then the Field called in holy Scripture Jceldama^ that is to fay. The Field 
ThePalaceot ^^^^^^ becaufe it was bought for the thirty pieces of Silver, which Jndas 
Aceldmi. got for betraying of our Lord, and afterwards threw them back, being in def- 
pair for having ^old his Mailer: They were taken up and laid out in purchafing 
this Field, which was appointed to be a Burying-place for Strangers, and the 
The Grott of Armenian Strangers are buried there at prefent. Afterwards we faw the Grott 
the Apoftles. where the eight ApolUes hid themfelves, when our Lord was taken j there 
are fomd^i(ftures of the holy Apoftles ftill robe feen there ^ then the place 
The pit where the Strangers Greeks are Interred, and the pit where the Jews hid the 
where the Fire of the Altar, by orders from the Prophet Jeremy., when they were earned 
Fire was laid avvay Slaves to Babylon by Nebitchadnez.er King of Babylon ^ and many years af- 
diu-ing the ^ ^jj^y ^^^^ delivered, the high prieft Nthcmiah caufihg fearch to be madô 
SL?/^^^ for the Fire in that place, they found nothing but a fat Clay, which beingby 
the faid Priefc laid upon the Burnt-Offering, it took Fire and was Confumed. 
X Clofe by this Pit there is a Mofque with a refervatory of Water. " We camé 
Poolofi^/ojii afterwards to the Pool of Shiloah, whither our Lord fent the Blind man to 
wafh, after he had anointed his Eyes with Clay and Spittle, which reftored 
The place j^js {jg^^- him. Then we came to the place where the Prophet Jfaiah was 
pïoSet y/^i- alive in two by the middle with a wooden Saw, by command of King 
ah was Sawn Manajfes-, then the Fountain of the Virgin,fo called, becaufe there, fas it is faid) 
in fundera flie waihed our SaviouiTs Clouts. There are thirty fteps to go down to it, and 
live. they fay that fach as are fick of Feavers, by bathing in that water and drinking 
TheF^""-^"!" of it, (it being very good to drink) are prefently Cured. • From this Well 
The Molmt" ^^"^^^ water of the Pool of Shtloah. Notfar from thence we faw the Mount 
of Scandal. - of Scandal., fo called, becaufe the Concubines of Salomon made him commit Ido- 
The place latry in that place, by Sacrificing to the Idol Moloch., and the Idol oïChamos. 
where jMiji Not far from thence is the place where Judas Jfcariot Hanged bimfelf, after 
feï^^*^^ betrayed our Saviour ; then we went to Bethany., where we faw the' ruines 
BetJw'.y of thcHoufeof Simon the Leper, where Mary Magdalen -^om^à the precious 
The Caftle Ointment upon the Feet of our Lord. Advancing fixty Paces further, we faw 
of St. La^ci- the place of the Caftle o{%t. LaT^ar us., nothing remaining but the ruines upon 
Vil- a little Mount, at the foot of which is the Sepulchre that our Saviour raifed 
dire oUa'^a- ■'^^^^"^ out of when he had been four days Dead, and the very ftone that 
' ÏUS. ' was rolled againft the mouth of it i there are twenty uneafie fteps down to it, 
cut in the Rock,and at the bottom of them are fix wooden fteps,that lead into 
a little Chappel,out of which you go into the faid Sepulchre that is on the left 
hand. This Sepulchre is a little fquare Grott, containing a Table, on which 
all thePriefts of the Nations that Inhabit JcrHfalem fay^Mafs, and the Body of 
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