Part 1. Travels- into the Lev ant. 
is very well lîtuated ; feven Rivers ran by it, and it is encorapaffed all round 
alraoft with two Walls, and little Ditches. The Houfes are not handfome 
on the out-fide being built of Brick and Earth, but within they are molt 
Beautiful, and have all generally Fountains. The Mofques, Bagnio's and Cof- 
fee-Houfes are very fair and well Built. But let us return to Nazareth, which 
I pafled not, hoping to fee Damafcus by another way, as I fliall relate 
hereafter. 
The Reader may find a more amfle defer ip ion of Dama lens in the Second Part 
Ofthefe TRAVELS. . :^....- io' , ' va 
CHAP. LIX. 
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Our return to Acre. A Defcripion of Momit 
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AFter we had feen Naz,areth and all that is to be feen about it, we took . 
leave of the Father Guardian of Naz^areth, and parted on Smday thé 
twelfth of May, about two a Clock in the Afternoon. 
Monday the thirteenth of Mzy we parted frorn -^çre about four a Clock in 
the Evening in a fmall Bark^ to go to Mount Carmel ten miles from j4cre -, we 
had a fair Wind, but fo high, that our Rudder broke, which being quickly 
mended again with fome Nails, we failed only with a fore Sail, and about 
fix a Clock at night, arrived at the Village of Cayphas, before which we were ^he village 
taken by the Corfair mentioned before. This Village which was formerly a of cayphasf 
Town, ftands at the foot of Mount Carmel-^ we went up the Mount, and about 
feven a Clock came to the Convent, which is held by barefooted Carmelites, xhe Convent 
There we found two French Fathers and an Italian Brother, who had been on Mount 
twenty years there. They obferve a very fevere Rule^ for befide that they dmeh 
are removed from all Worldly Converfation, they neither eat Flefh nor drink 
Wine, and if they need it, they mufl; go to another place, as the Supérieur at 
that time did, for being afthmatick, and pining away daily, he was forced to 
go to Acre, there to recruit himfelf for fome days : Nor do they fufFer Pilgrims 
to eat Flefh in their Convent, only they allow them to drink Wine. This 
Convent is not on the top of the Mount, where they had a lovely onci 
before the Chriftians loft the Holy Land, the ruines whereof are flill to be feen*, 
but is a very little one fomewhat lower, and needs no more but three Monks to 
fill it, who would have much adoe to fublifl:, if they had not fome Alms given 
them by the French Merchants of Acre, that go often thither to their Devoti- 
ons. They have poffelTed this place thirty years, fince the time they 
were driven out of it, after that the Chriftians loft the Holy Land -, it is the 
place where the Prophet Elias lived, and their Church is the very Grott where 
fometimes he abode, which is very neatly cut out of the Rock: From this Con- 
vent they have an excellent Profped, efpecially upon the Sea, where there is 
no bounds to their fight. About their Convent they have a pretty Hermitage 
very well Cultivated by the Italian Brother, who hath brought all the Earth 
that is in it thither -, and indeed, it is very pleafant to fee Flowers and Fruits 
growing upon a Hill that is nothing but Rock. Thefe good Monks gave us a 
very neat Collation of nine or ten Difhes of Fruit, and then we went to reft 
in the apartment of the Pilgrims; for though it be a very little, place, yet 
they have made a fraall,commodious and very neat Lodging for Pilgrims, but 
they muft not exceed the number of fix. Next day the fourteenth oîMay, we 
F f ^ Performed 
