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performed our Det/otions in that holy place, and then left the Convent about 
eight a Clock in the morning, that we might go vifit the places of Devotion 
about it. Our guide was ohé of the French Fathers, who fearing we might 
be Robbed by the Arabs^ made us carry upôtt our fhoulders flicks in'^he manner 
of Mufquets. At a good Leagues diftance from the Convent,we faw a Well 
that the Prophet £//^^_ma(ie to fpring out of the Ground, and a little over 
it, another no lefs m.iraculcus, the waters of both are very pleafant and 
good. The Arabs fay , that all the while the Monks were abfent after they 
had been Banlfhed from thence, they yielded no Water. Clofe by this laft 
Fountain àrè ftately ruines bf -the Convent of St. Brocard^ who was fent thitKer 
by St. Albert^ Patriarch of Jernfalem^ to Reform the Hermites, that lived 
there without rule or community ; it hath been a lovely Convent. Not far 
Stone-Melons ^^^^^ thence is the Garden of the Stone-Melons, and they fay, that Elias palTmg 
that way, demanded in Charity a Melon from a man that was gathering fome 
who in contempt anfwered 'BlUs that they were Stones and not Melons, where- 
upon all the Melons were immediately turned into Stones ; when I prayed them 
to condud me to that Garden, They made meanfwer, that they knew not the 
way, but after that, they told me privately, that they were unwilling to carry 
me thither, becaufe we were too many in company, and that there being but 
few of thefe Melons there at prefent, if every one took what he lifted no 
more woiiM remain -, but they made me a prefent of one. After we had feen 
thefe places, we returned to the Convent about eleven of the Clock, and having 
Dined on good frelh Fifh, we went to fee the Grotts of the holy Prophets 
Grc'-'c^ o^f Eli ^^^"^^ £ltfl>a^ that are near to the Convent ; there is alfo a third, but it is 
iz^.^ ° ^' full of Earth, and the door walled up. Lower down, towards the foot of the 
Mountain,' is'tHe Cave^ where the Prophet EUas taught the People ^ it is all cut 
very fmooth in tTîîe Rock bath above and below j it is about twenty paces in 
length, fifteen in Breadth, and very high ; and I think it is one of the lovlieft 
Grotts that can be feen. The Turks have made a little Mofque there. 
'MountC^j'*»ïW and all the Country about, is commanded by a Prince named the 
Enw Tkirube. ^^^^-^ Tharabec),'^\\Q pays yearly to the Grand Stumor a Tribute of twelve Horfes. 
Having thanked the Fathers for their Civility, which we acknowledged by a* 
.- ;;;t charitable Gratuity, we embarked again about four a clock in the Afternoon 
. - iivthe fame Bârk that hM 'br(Sught us, and arrived at Acre zhov^t feven at 
Night. 
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C H AP. LX. 
The way from Acre to Sourlayde, Baruth^ Tripoly 
and Mount Libanus ; and from Tripoly, to Alep- 
po, with what is to he feen in thefe flaces. 
Iftiall here make a little digreffion from my Travels, and obferve what is 
to be feen in thofe quarters. The firft night you leave Acre, you Lodge 
at Sour ; about half way there is a Tower near the Sea, where a CafFare 
mull be paid. About an hour and a half before you come to Sour, a few 
fteps from the Sea-fide, you find a Well of an odlogone figure, about fifteen 
foot in diameter, which is fo full of Water, that one may reach it with the 
Hand, and (as they fay) they have often attempted to found the depth of it, 
withfeveral Camels load of Rope, but could never find the bottom. It is 
taken to be the Well of Living Waters, mentioned in the C amides. 
The Town of Sour is upon the Sea-fide, and was anciently called Tyre ; 
there it was that our Lord Cured the Camamtijh Womans Daughter. There 
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